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There, riot police going after protesters and demonstrators. this is not something you see every day in egypt, and we were talking a little bit before, brooke, this report about images of demonstrators tearing down with knives. >> yeah. lets show that video. >> posters of hosni mubarak. its significant because in the arab world, in the autocratic regimes of the arab world the cult of personality is an extremely important component. >> here it is. >> there you have it. we see it in syria, and oth...

Life drama, his facebook fan page. the high-profile site, brooke, was hacked on tuesday. a message appeared on his page reading, quote, let the hacking begin. if facebook needs money instead of going to the banks, why doesnt facebook let its users invest in facebook in a social way? why not transform facebook into a social business the way nobel prize winner mohammed yunnis described it, and the message was later removed, of course, but not before receiving 1,800 lights from visitors. >> trying ...

Some anti-vaccination groups on facebook are using coded language to spread this information without getting flagged by moderators. they substitute words like "dancing" for vaccination. so much to discuss this hour with our saturday night panel. joining us tonight ben collins. he covers disinformation and extremism online.s kavitha david, a sports and cultural writer for the athletic, author of "loving sports when they dont love you back, dilemmas of the modern fan." and comedian and actor helen...

Chocolate. what if i dont want to receive those commercial advertisements? so your chief operating officer, ms. sandberg, suggested on the nbc "today" show that facebook users who do not want their personal information used for advertising might have to pay for that protection, pay for it. are you actually considering having facebook users pay for you not to use that information? >> senator, people have a control over how their information is used in ads in the product today. so if you want to h...

With friends, but your policy does not give any indication for more controversial issues of such data. my question -- why doesnt facebook disclose to its users all the ways the data might be used by facebook and other third parties and what is facebooks responsibility to inform users about that information? >> mr. chairman, i believe its important to tell people exactly how the information that they share on facebook is going to be used. thats why every single time you go to share something on f...

Theyre doing anything improper. if we find theyre doing anything improper, well ban them from facebook and tell everyone affected. as to past activity, i dont have all the apps that weve banned here but if youd like, i can have my team follow up with you after this. >> have you ever required an ad to ensure the deletion of improperly transferred data and if so, how many times? >> mr. chairman, yes, we have. i dont have the exact figure on how many times we have. but overall the way weve enforced...

Obviously frustrating, not only because it affected 87 million but because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years. so back in 2011, it was a settlement with the ftc and now we discover yet another incidence where the data was failed to be protected. when you discovered the cambridge analytica had fraudulently obtained all of this information, why didnt you inform those 87 million? >> when we learned in 2015 that cambridge analytica had bought data ...

Third-party information. what we found is that even though some people dont like ads, people really dont like ads that arent relevant. and while there is some discomfort for sure with using information in making ads more relevant, the overwhelming feedback that we get from our community is that people would rather have us show relevant content there than not. so we offer this control that youre referencing. some people use it. its not the majority of people on facebook, and i think that thats --...

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