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Tech ecos sphere. twitter saying they use more right wing content than content from left wing sources. is that because right wing sources are catchier, better going viral? supported by a stronger media machine or are the algorithms favoring the right? paula points out it doesnt have to be this way. >> there are ways for platforms like youtube to kbatz these filter bubbles. youtube players, for instance, stop the auto play feature for ail go rhythmically expected videos. this can be used to be su...

Facebook Handing Over Power to the People Facebook Handing Over Power to the People The app introduces new tools for users to control what they see and how they share The app introduces new tools for users to control what they see and how they share April 1, 2021 On March 31st, Facebook introduced News Feed, a new tool to give users more control over what they see and how they share. This feature will enable you to control who can comment on any given public post through a menu of options rangi...

Dropoff? viewership from last week. i think the real thing to look at here, you had some of this polling on earlier in the hour, how set people are in their ways. people see this as a prefixed conclusion, that the democrats are going to impeach, the republicans are going to acquit, and were going to be right back where we started. a really big issue that we write a lot about on axios, the way people can live in filter bubbles, depending on the television shows you watch and the twitter followers...

Meeting in trump tower with lawyers and russian spies. i mean this all happened. these are facts now. robert mueller is saying these are the facts. and thats the case that needs to be laid out for the american people. >> do we have a sot for that or is it full screen? there is a big difference when we can play sound. >> its more than just the democrats in congress. after justin amash, who has now become an independent held a town hall recently, a woman was interviewed at the town hall who said i...

Because some of the -- there are parts of the report that really read like a spy thriller. essentially, there was a foreign government and their spies attacking us and the trump campaign was having secret meetings in cigar bars, having meeting in trump tower with lawyers and russian spies. i mean this all happened. these are facts now. robert mueller is saying these are the facts. and thats the case that needs to be laid out for the american people. >> do we have a sot for that or is it full scr...

Problem. leaders in both parties are saying that companies like amazon, googles parent company alphabet, facebook, apple, have too much power. abusing influence. and this week the house judiciary committee began hearings on the topic. it looks like the justice department and the ftc are gearing up for their own investigations with the urging from 43 state attorney generals, all asking the fed to take some kind of action on the tech titans over pry isnt acompetition what does it mean? is good for...

Particularly on the right, but also on the extreme left, the development of people who live in an alternative reality, do not accept whats going on in the world, and that has been a core part of how trump got elected. the manipulation of voters by the russians and the voter suppression done by the trump campaign itself were both highly dependent on those filter bubbles. last people on earth who politically people should be complaining is the trump family. >> were glad we have you to help us out ...

Antivax or obama and kenya. they go in just being curious, but they wind up -- and again, theyre on facebook at least once a day so it doesnt take very long of being inundated. when they talk about filter bubbles, this is what they talk about. each person living in their own set of facts. its like we have our own truman show, there are 2.2 billion of them on facebook. facebook complicates all this because it treats campaign advertising as a really important business opportunity. and so it aids c...

Good to see you. thank you for being with us. what does making people pay for the content on facebook do to improve this particular situation? is there some sense that if im a paying going to have more control over it? whats the issue? >> so, ali, the way to think about this is in an advertising business model, the user isnt the customer. the user is the product. and so facebook is currently generating nearly $7 a month in the united states from each user, and the incentives created by that adve...

Really important, is that there are better business models than the ad model facebook has now an i want to help them shift the model to take the pressure off so they dont have to put people in filter bubbles or have to addict them. because that is become a public health crisis, for kids and adult as and now for the country. >> roger mcnamee. thank you very much. i know you are one of alis favorites. thank you for coming on. >> you are one of my favorites. and as they gather in davos switzerlan...