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>> so when we talk about sharing with our friends, does facebook contribute to our filter bubble. s. >> i want a chance to ex-plain this. what people i think think incorrectly is that facebook is what keeps you from seeing all the stuff thats only from your friends and your point of view. so that without facebook youd see this broad array of view of all sides and thats not true. what facebook does is indreess our ability to stay in touch with our weak ties. so they think of strong ties as the co...

Questions. >> martha: how do you push back on this? its so deeply ingrained. in terms of politics they have a political bent as well. >> do they? theyre basically giving everybody what they want. we talk about the filter bubble all the time. if you look at facebook, were extremely polarized, lets say we have two vibes, facebook has done a lot to nurture that. they give you what you want. but the difference is, if i watch fox news not me especially but there are a lot of people getting what they ...

Founder mark zuckerberg knows this and is responding to his companys roam in creating this -- role in creating this so-called filter bubble. he gave an exclusive interview to cnn telling techs lori seigel thats why facebooks original mission needs to change. >> i used to think that if we work to give people a voice and help people connect that that would make people better by itself. i think that those are important things to do, and were still going do them. now i feel like we have a responsibi...

Journalism. we take this seriously. try to puncture through the filter bubbles, help people see and hear things they are not otherwise seeing and hearing. but, the other challenge here isnt just the filter bubble the way you conceive it. people look for the information they need to live their lives and to do their work as citizen zs on cycles that are different from the cycles we operate on as news organizations. so, part of what we have to develop and i think all three of the organizations that...

Own filter bubbles, they call them. our own bubbles. some people really dont even know. they say, well, listen, donald trump is only talking about isis. why are the muslims worried? then you talk to muslim families, and they dont know if they should leave the country because the way that one person hears it versus is way another person hears it -- >> how are you in a filter bubble? he said -- >> to be clear, he said he wants to ban muslims from coming to the country, but the ones here feel more ...

They say, donald trump is only talking about isis, why are muslims worried? then you talk to to muslim families and theyre worried about whether to leave the country. >> when someone says muslims should -- thats not a filter bubble. thats exactly what he said. >> to be clear now, to be clear, he said he wants to ban muslims from coming to the country. but the ones here now feel more vulnerable. >> the ones here see it as him talking about isis. >> they say, hes only talking about the bad ones. w...

Filter bubble and that is a problem. >> and as were hearing from donald trump in a way weve not yet heard from him before. that is report of an interview of trump. let my play a portion. here he is. >> i was a very rebellious kind of person. i dont like to talk about it actually. but i was a very rebellious person. and very set in my ways. >> in eighth grade. >> and i loved to fight. i always loved to fight. >> physical fights? >> yeah all kinds of fights, physical -- >> argument. >> all kind of...

>> the american economy has created in the private sector jobs for the past 21 months in a row. thats nearly three million new jobs in all. more than half a million over the last four months. so we need to keep that growth going. >> there are some new signs of life in the u.s. job market. with a strong showing in november that caught a lot of the analysts by surprise. the labor department says employers added 120,000 jobs helping push down the unemployment rate from 9% in october to 8....

where are things happening today? hong kong, share prices there up more than 5.5%. we wont be going to for a away from the story on the markets. also today, world aids today. the world is marking 30 years since hiv was discovered. leaders, researchers and activists are pushing a very big goal -- ending aids forever. president obama today announced a $50 million boost in funding for hiv prevention and treatment in america. and also a goal of helping 6 million people access life saving t...

word agreement you know, im not sure what they called it. and yes, that was some sort of settlement or termination and i dont even know what the contents of that was. >> well, he came out this morning that cain had a pretty good recognition of the settlement from the outset. >> she was making huge claims about sexual harassment. i do recall she was asking for a lrnlg sum of money. i dont remember what the sum of money was. as the review of this moved forward, that sum of money negotiat...