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>> mike, this gets at another issue that another source of mine once said about three years ago, which is, facebook figure ed out how to get rid of child pornography for the most part and root that out. some of the things they claim they cant touch its been proven they can. they can regulate some speech if they choose to. they did for a period of time. they do control -- they have a monopoly on global communications it appears when you look at whatsapp and instagram and what happens when they go...

Hours, an outage that caused disruption well beyond social media, global disruption for many who use whatsapp and facebook for retail sales. big question facing lawmakers of todays hearing, what to do about the dangers that are posed by the social media giant. haugen suggested in her testimony the regulators, lawmakers and the public need a better understanding of how the company operates before it figures out how to regulate it. >> no one truly understand the destructive choices made by faceboo...

And again made the point are responsible for cur raitting things she said leads to bullying, politicians taking positions that make no sense but spread widely on facebook and leads even to terrible crimes in countries like ethiopia, chuck. >> jacob, the other thing that happened yesterday, it turned out to be a coincidence but in some ways may have unintentionally made the argument that facebook is a potential monopoly, and that is the fact that it had a server problem that knocked facebook, ins...

Defining its scope and influence in our lives and monetary terms or in any other terms. what we saw pretty clearly during the five hours of the total blackout on all its products, youre talking about not just losing the opportunity to waste time on facebook, youre talking about family members not able to communicate across borders on whatsapp, one of the primary ways the communities communicate across countries. you had instagram totally unable to do what they do, and so any argument that facebo...

But, you know, facebook is arguing this is just -- theres nothing we can do about it. thats just not true. they will spend billions and billions and billions of because they want to protect this ecosystem that has generated profits never seen in the history of the world. we have got to get control of this. this is dangerous for our democracy, dangerous for young people, dangerous for our public health and we have a responsibility to do something about it and weve done that work and the antitrust...

Actualizado 22:25 La aplicación de mensajería Whatsapp está preparando un gran cambio en la forma en la que se envían tanto fotos como vídeos a otros usuarios. Una nueva característica que que ya se encuentra en desarrollo. Recientemente los usuarios han tenido que aceptar un gran cambio en los términos de políticas de privacidad de la app para que pudiesen seguir utilizándola. Además, la propia Whatsapp anunció otra modificación en sus funciones: permitirá migrar el historial d...