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Lawmakers, many of whom did not seem to fully understand how the social media platform works. this was obvious in some of their questions. many members of congress seemed eager to regulate facebook that came up a lot. but how you regulate the giant wasnt immediately clear. one idea was to change facebooks default privacy settings from opt out to opt in. that means the company would node to ask your permission to collect data right away instead of collecting it by default. that could severely lim...

Backlash going to lead to a change in the culture at facebook and other tech fops. joining me, the author of the know it alls. he is also an "the new york tim" his latest piece is can facebook develop a conscience. now, unknown to most people you and i sat here throughout the entire testimony or at least an hour of it on tuesday. whats your take away here? the questions -- mark zuckerberg didnt stumble over anything. he was well media trained. but do you think he really heard all of the concerns...

Perfect allowing fake accounts and inappropriate content to get through. something else we heard over and over, that zuckerberg didnt have the information lawmakers wanted but he promised to get back to them. joining us now, someone how is familiar with facebook and its data privacy issues. she is a former facebook platform operations manager. he says he sounded the alarm about privacy issues during his tenure at the site. good to have you here. when you are at facebook. >> in 2011 and 2012. >> ...

A data leak, but this is something that potentially could impact the national security of the united states and the integrity of american democratic institutions, as well as institutions here in britain and around the world. >> christopher wiley, i know you have taken a big risk in speaking out as a whistle blower, thank you for joining me again. >> cheers, thank you for having me. next how the revelations about facebook may damage trump even more. and roger stone with a smoking response to ...

Mercer. and steve bannon, who was called trumps vice president. cambridge is in the center of this probe. ties to wikileaks, facebook and trump heavy hitters. but tonight, new questions about cambridges work with a -- >> joining me now is that whistle blower, christopher wiley, thanks for being part of our special. your former company cambridge worked for donald trump, it also apparently talked to this big russian oil company, lukooiluko discussing social media marketing, any reason why an oil c...

Them. >> we knew both internally and external externally with concerns with the way that facebook was handling data, there were kevi s kevin -- concerns from the press and from the public. >> we definitely didnt realize the gravity of this issue sooner. >> thats a whistle blower laying out the face, versus a facebook executive again claiming theyre always surprised when this happens. and i want to show you a new tune to what zuckerberg said was happening. >> we have a basic responsibility to pro...

That firm, cambridge analytica, she had a key to steve bannons townhouse in washington. she spoke at cpac in 2016 with kellyanne conway. she spent the evening at the victory party with rebecca mercer, she also worked at cambridge, she also worked for barack obama. this is her first tv interview from anywhere in the world. i spoke to her in thailand about her thoughts on facebook. did you know that cambridge had the lengths of data that were now learning? >> i was privy to the information that wa...

Trance par transparency. it there are counter arguments here, especially among people who say dont bother being on facebook. if you post your stuff, you might expect that it will be shared, leaked or abused. if you think that, note that facebooks activities go way beyond just sharing that data. consider this. facebook used secret social engineering, to manipulate users emotions. in 2014, it showed half a million or more users positive or negative stories, in an artificial way, to then see if it ...

Week was worth $20 billion. >> you think they dont care? >> i think the data policy has been only exploitive and incredibly irresponsible. >> irresponsible. thats how she put what facebook has put forward with cambridges lax approach. and what facebook did with the data and whether any of this could be bound up in the big question of russian meddling. >> facebook gave probably thousands of different companies access to this data. we were only asked in december of 2015 about seven months later, i...

They said -- so you heard zuckerberg say, thats what he was spending $11 million at 11 different lobbying firms to clear that and other regulations. when he says hes -- when mark zuckerberg says the company cares about this breach, remember it didnt care or do anything until it was busted. and white facebook touts its -- its zuckerberg who infamously played so dumb when presented with the idea that facebook impacts people, a tune hes orveonly recently begun to change. >> personally, i think the ...