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Happening on their own platform? that is the question that many people are asking. why doesnt facebook have the technology to do that itself? weve put those questions to facebook. they have not gotten back to us. this speaks to the broader question of what is going on with these companies? why cant they develop the technology that is necessary to take down this inciteful or violent imagery and videos and pictures? look, mark zuckerberg, the ceo of facebook was in front of congress just about a y...

To talk more about that, i want to bring in christina aleshi. apparently one of the suspects was streaming this live on one of the social media platforms. >> that is correct. >> why and how did this platform not stop it? >> look, this exposes the weakness in all of these platforms. and the major companies, facebook, twitter, google, all put out statements saying that they had disabled the shooters account and that they were trying to essentially take down all of these videos that were being shar...

And two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. a set of internal dock uume that facebook doesnt want you to see is in the hands of british officials. it shows little regard for human privacy. mark zuckerberg forced a plan to bring his rivals out of business. we have the latest from london. >> reporter: good morning, polo and christine. perhaps the question more titilating of what is in the documents, why doesnt facebook want us to know what is in the documents? this is p...

That do a better job of identifying fake accounts that may be trying to interfere in elections and spread misinformation. we were able to pro actively remove tens of thousands of accounts before they could contribute significant harm and the nature of these attacks, though, is that there are people in russia whose job it is is to try to exploit our systems and other internet systems and other systems as well. so this is an arms race. theyre going to keep on getting better at this and we need to ...

And are we talking about data privacy or talking about russian meddling in the election, are we talking about political ads and regulation on political ads. it is all over the place. and third, and this is far annoying the most important issue, we dont have tech literate senators. there is a clear disconnect here between the priorities of the tech community and even the sort of knowledge of the senators about what these issues are. the -- first of all, the big issue is data privacy. that is the ...

We have the same rules in place to disclose political ad and issue ads as we do for tv and radio, as as well as disclaimers that youre going to take early action, as soon as june, i heard, before this election so people can view these ads including issue ads is that correct? >> that is correct. i just want to take a moment to thank you for your leadership on this. this is i think an important area for the whole history to move on. the two specific things were doing, one is around transparency. n...

People working on security and content review. when content gets flagged to us, we have those people look at it. if it violates our policy, well take it down. some problems lend themselves more easily to a.i. solutions than others. hate speech is one of the hardest. determining if something is hate speech is very linguistically nuanced. you need to understand whether something is a slur or hateful, not just in english but a majority of people use it on languages on facebook across the world. con...

Web site or agree to terms of service? are web sites up front about how they extract value from users or do they hide the ball? do consumers have the information they need to make an informed choice regarding whether or not to visit a particular web site? to my mind these are questions that we should ask or be focusing on. now, mr. zuckerberg, i remember well your visit to capitol hill in 2010. you spoke to the senate republican high task task force, you said back then that facebook would always...

>> but u.n. investigators have blamed you, blamed facebook for playing a role in the genocide. we all agree its terrible. how can you dedicate and will you dedicate resources to make sure such hate speech is taken down within 24 hours? >> yes, were working on this. and there are three specific things that were doing. one is were hiring dozens of more burmese language content reviewers because hate speech is very language specific. its hard to do it without people who speak the local language and...

Sort of pressure on its stock and on its bottom line to do it in a more robust way on their own. and this is new. the fact that were just now -- since facebook was -- >> 2007. >> since 2007 now seeing the head of facebook on capitol hill for the first time tells you how much a gulf there has been through the very important industry and people who make laws. >> well take a break. and special coverage continues on "the lead" in just a moment. stay with us. why is dark magic so spell-bindingly good...