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Voting, the smart voting strategy. google blocked those videos, again at the request, at the demand of putins government. today the washington post published an eerily resident story, along those same, lines except this time involves the ceo of facebook marks occurred, and the nation of vietnam. heres how they put. it late last year marks a covert faced a choice, comply with demands from vietnams ruling communist party, to censor anti government dissidents, or risk getting knocked off line in on...

Conspiracy theories, in just two days, facebook was recommending she join pages -- she didnt follow the recommended qanon groups but whatever algorithm they were using pushed ahead just the same. within one week, smiths feed was full of groups and pages that had violated facebooks own rules including those against hate speech and disinformation. thats all really bad, but it gets worse because she isnt real. her account was created by a researcher employed by facebook who was specifically studyin...

Who has written about the dangers that this kind of monopoly poses to our country. and, understand, its an economic monopoly. you want to buy an ad on facebook? you know you go to? you go to facebook. you go to the deals -- dealers. the pricing, the buyers, the sellers, every part of it. the other part is that, they understand the political risks that a company like this threatens. also, we now have someone in the justice department who has shown that he has the courage to stand up to monopolist...

To do. the reason we need to break up facebook is that its critically important that theyre not be one worldwide company that basically, has all the information from everyone. they have made it clear, what they care about first, second, third, is profits, profits, profits. if that means doing the dance with dictators, if that means telling donald trump or elizabeth warren you could add ads that lie about their opponents, then they are happy with it as long as they keep raking the bucks in. they ...

That ran on facebook in october of 2019. it says quote, breaking, news marks like a broken facebook just endorsed donald trump for reelection. youre probably shocked. you might be thinking, how could this possibly be true? it was not true. neither facebook founder mark zuckerberg, nor the company he runs, offered any kind of political -- candidate for 2020. there was, in black and white, in a facebook ad, on mark zuckerbergs own platform claiming he had made this endorsement he hadnt really made...

Misinformation, violence and gore. again, just by following facebooks recommendations. in response to these test, cases facebook has pointed to changes it said it made to make the platform safer. it also said it has made progress and working to stop abuse, in countries where theyre in risk of conflict in violence. its clear that the problems that tech giants like facebook are facing in creating, our complex, but are also really not getting better overtime, if youre looking to these companies to ...

Its worth, facebook has this interesting project going called project treble and its named for the 17th century dutch inventer who invented the first navigable submarine. so you can get the metaphor. how do they get to qanon? what is this third degree of separation that really pours people into these rabbit holes and can they, these researchers, can they somehow cover up or turn down the algorithm on those initial rabbit holes and maybe fix it that way? its a really interesting research project,...

Might be q curious. im trying to get an idea of what level is the work being done by peoples nested preferences external to facebook. >> yeah. thats a very well worded question. you know, earlier this year, i think about it a lot. facebooks vp of global comes, he made a block post where he said it takes two to tango. its like facebook is pulling these people across the dance floor and when they finally get them on the floor, hey, dancing is pretty fun and you relent and join these groups. its ha...

She wanted on facebooks platform, as long as it was part of a paid political ad for her campaign. ahead of the 2020 presidential campaign, facebook announced that any ad paid for by a political campaign would be exempt from fact checking protocols. that is exactly what you think, politicians were formally allowed on facebook to spread any lie they wanted about their opponents with total impunity. that is, example, how donald trump was able to run facebook ads claiming joe biden was doing corrupt...

Take us through the context of this. what is your reporting based on and what were the -- do in creating these profiles. >> yeah, hey, chris. so this was one of tens of thousands of documents that we have been poring over looking at the documents that whistleblower frances haugen has handed over to the sec and congress. a lot of these documents were also the basis of those blockbuster "wall street journal" reports we saw. so weve been poring over these documents and this is one of many example o...