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A business model shoshana zuboff calls �*surveillance capitalism and when you did that, you know, that meant even — everyone focuses on the content moderation, which its not about content. move further upstream to where the algorithmic bias, the algorithms of distribution happen, and then you move further upstream to the top, which is where our data is extracted and mined, organised by ai, and then distributed through these algorithms, right? this part is wrong. this part is wrong. so we wer...

We had this big moment where it was big mass vaccination centers. now theyre micro targeting. >> theyve got to go out and reach every person who think they might do it at some point. theyve got to do it now. christine romans, thank you so much. cheers as it were. brianna? >> reporter: israels longest serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu is one stoep away fro being honest. they struck a coalition deal to form a new government. this is an extraordinary coalition. paving the way for netanyahus...

>> and there is controversy over facebook and twitter, would you look to older technology which is s&s texting. the trump campaign is spending millions of dollars on the tech and seeing one of the top officials is the co-founder of the largest s&s texting company on the republican side. they are way ahead of democrats in terms of embedding videos and while there is scrutiny with what ads are on facebook and twitter, it is largely the wild wild west and what information is getting to voters and w...

I think hes looking to be an influencer in who gets the nomination. its possible that mike bloomberg could end up with 15, 20% of the delegates after super tuesday because he is going into these states so strong and its not just the money, its how you spend the money. ive seen plenty of candidates spend a lot of money very poorly. mike bloomberg so far is spending it mostly on tv. we have not even seen the infrastructure he has built to complement those ads and, you know, much like he did in 200...

Chris wallace. clearly something that the fbi will need to address that will address going forward. jon: seventeen significant accuracies and omissions, all of this went against the kit presidents campaign and carter page in particular. thank you. jon: with a 2020 election year, now only weeks away, social media tech giants are cracking down on political at why others see, is just not their job to censor such assets. kristin fisher has the details. >> is the part of our digital department. sue i...

Washington that this is not a good thing. corresponded kristin fisher shows us tonight. >> this is part of our digital department... >> to say that trump campaign manager brad parscale is frustrated by googles political ad policy is an understatement. >> its a removal of free speech, suppression of >> its not about attracting eyeballs online. to do that, all campaigns have been using a tactic called "micro-targeting," which allows them to aim as a very specific groups of people based on politica...

They think theyll win in 2020. and they pointed out a few things i wasnt that aware of that go into the core of their strategy. one, that they wiped away almost all opposition at the state level, at the state party level. they say 42 people who run -- 42 different states are now totally pro trumpers so theres no opposition. so the ability for anyone not to work on his behalf has been eliminated. theyre also focusing on the smallest counties in america. they say in wisconsin it represents about 2...

Have any concept of understanding what is a democrat and what is a republican, no matter who you are, we are trying to enforce our policies and i consistent way. >> dana: will give you each 30 seconds, where does this go from here? >> i think the tech companies in general are struggling trying to figure out how to deal with a lot of these issues regarding political ads. the decision by google to limit micro-targeting i dont think does anything to stop the problem of misinformation, these compani...

Their various policies? >> theres few people who understand that space better than sara fisher on our staff and shes hearing from people from google and facebook they think theyre going to have to make more compromics. that the twitter decision to ban political advertising will put more pressure on them. maybe get rid of micro targeting, which allows people and campaigns to target very specific voters and move them emotionally. and, you nov, we weknow, we wer about bill gates or elizabeth warren...

You talk to anyone around the president, he talks about the base. how do we fire these people up and keep them mobilized? is it important if you look at the data and exit polling and micro targeting figures we have at our disposal, there are a lot of folks who voted for the president in 2016, who voted democrat in 2018, and by and large they are living in the suburbs, upscale, wealthy, traditionally republican voters who on these culture issues we have been talking so much about, theyre beginnin...