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A social media firestorm erupted today with some facebook users upset over a new hate speech check for some users. it happened as facebooks annual f-8 conference was kicking off in san jose and comes just weeks after zuckerberg was questioned on capitol hill about data security. joe ling, this seems like a very unfortunate incident for facebook, as it turns out, what happened? >> well, casey, it has been somewhat of a controversy online on social media, but what we have seen so far today is a co...

>> thank you so much, andrea mitchell. >> from the white house. >> andrea mitchell, thank you so much. up next, president trump is back in campaign mode as we saw on saturday night, delivering a fiery speech over the weekend. but everyone in the republican party is getting worried about this. they think he is not quite out there helping their case. he is only making himself into a liability. is he? and someone who doesnt see the electoral threats facing the republicans, he certainly doesnt s...

The discussion about data data security and potential abuse of data by companies like alphabet only is adding to this problem. in frankfurt thank you. french auto maker p.s.a. the company which makes page one hundred cause revenue shoot up by over forty percent in the first quarter and thats because of additional sales coming in from the new p.s.a. brand opel the german automaker has failed to make profits for more than fifteen years under its former owner of general motors and this performance ...

In elections and hate speech as well as developers and data privacy it was my mistake and im sorry. zuckerberg gave repeated assurances that he would allocate more facebook staff to help improve data protection but he appeared evasive in response to committee members questions is yes or no if you could will you make the commitment to change all the user to changing all the user default settings to minimize to the greatest extent possible the collection and use of users that congressman this is a...

Make that commitment. while making numerous promises on improving data security second bridge still managed to mange think on specifics legislative and sports now another remarkable night of football in the quarter finals of the champions league the big drama came in spain where it was you ventus managed to come back from three goals down to tie the aggregate score against real madrid extra time was on the cards until the spaniards were awarded a controversy all stoppage time penalty even diskee...

If the browser act were to pass and you get an opt in or opt out, how do you keep facebook and others honest? >> through the federal trade commission. the ftc has been our nations privacy regulator for decades. for the past 20 years, they have regulated the virtual space. theyre the ones that issued the decree on facebook and brought them in compliance in 2011. thats when we started the privacy working group, which i chaired. for four years, weve been trying to pass data security and privacy edu...

Federal statutes. therefore, we are going to conduct an investigation and issued to you criminal violations or penalties however we move forward with that component of it." yes, we need data security, breach notification, and privacy, reserved to the individual the right to protect themselves online. >> harris: boy, its interesting. ive been watching a couple days of this. im really curious to see how much buy-in these companies are going to have. the browser act offered by congresswoman blackbu...

In the works as outrage grows around the massive user data scandal announcing new search functions and there when access the give people more privacy but facebook scanned links and images for inappropriate content and sometimes reads your private messages. founder and ceo mark zuckerberg will testify about data security. cambridge analytical may have accessed 87 million profiles, not 50 million. the number keeps going up. social media sites like facebook may find the opioid epidemic. major tech ...

Point four percent. of a comic as have already announced that theyre discontinuing their tests of self driving cars on public roads yet at least for the time being. tesla shares are not the only ones taking a beating lets have a quick look at the market and cross over to frankfurt where my colleagues are standing by tech stocks down across the board is that all in the wake of facebooks privacy scandal. yeah there get here the big tech companies such as twitters snapchat snapchat or facebook are ...

Make is case that theyre doing the right thing. im very skeptical at this point that facebook is really putting in place the kinds of protections that we need to see when it comes to data security. he needs to come up and make sure that thats happening. and look the american people and the representatives of the american people in the face and deliver that message. >> understanding the pressure hes hearing from you and the other people who we quoted, how do you see this playing out, congressman?...