Questioning Facebook News Today

Across, not roads, but more like rivers with a few bags in their hands. Th they just grabbed a few snacks, pillows. In many cases they were carrying pets. As we talked about last night, still one of the big issues is power. 100 of the island not having power right now, only those that can get to generators, also, the first thing people still ask me is, do you have signal. People desperate to find out the condition of loved ones who they cant get to because of flooding many because of debris . An...

Facebook. >> publicishers are the customers of facebook. the vast majority of our traffic comes from facebook. thats where so many people get their news. were at the mercy of this sort of opaque machine that controls what people get to see. they tweak the algorithm and it changes the economics of the news business. theyve always wanted to have that power without the responsibility. >> well have more from the panel. including a possible new catch of documents from sean spicer. details on that nex...

View facebook today. and im thinking about the way we view other telecommunications platforms. if someone were to abuse automated telephone call, we dont get mad at the phone company, we get mad at the bad actors. its interesting to me, are they a telecommunications platform or a news organization. >> what do you think it means for the investigation? if facebook is handing over -- how important do you think it could be or not important. >> i want to make one point of clarification. $100,000 vers...

Each team is responsible for that grid? >> one of our trainings is set -- getting the area in sectorizing it up, a grid. and then well focus a heavy team on each one of those grids, so were not wasting time. right now, time is our enemy right now. >> captain vasquez, i appreciate you taking time to talk to us. ive never forgotten the hours i spent watching your team, extraordinary professionals doing their job, and as you said, moving on to save other lives. so thank you for that, and thank you ...

Advertising, fake accounts. were seeing efforts to try to drive people to rallies, i wish that facebook would be more transparent and forthcoming. most americans want to know if foreign based paid advertising is coming into our elections. most americans are going to ant to know if fake accounts by foreigners are driving content and we ought to be able to take a look at that content. >> lets talk this over with our panel. should they be giving over -- >> thats -- theres obviously a desire to prot...

Russia, that sean spicer and others called fake news, thats blown out of the water, were now bringing facebook into it. theyre part of the investigation. >> if you believe this is going to happen again in the next round and the next round, its only going to increase with sites like facebook and others. >> they built this gigantic machine, and its eye little ironic, but perfectly appropriate that its now through that social network theyre being called to account. >> people understand that $100,00...

That they havent had to grapple with before this issue of propaganda. i think were very much seeing this play out in realtime, as they try to make these calculations and figure out where their values are. >> a russian propaganda used facebook to organized more than a dozen pro trump rallies in florida last year. its fascinating the degree to which. i dont think five years ago, anyone would have thought that facebook would have such a role in a u.s. election? >> yeah, i mean, some people believe ...

>> thats right. look, they built this gigantic world span ing machine, and its eye little ironic, but perfectly appropriate that its now through that social network theyre being called to account. people understand that $100,000 is pretargeted and can do all kinds of fancy stuff is an enormous amount of money, if it was a radio station, if it was a television station, that was like pumping out stuff to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, with targeted messages, we would all be prett...

Lives. thank you for that, thank you for talking to us tonight. >> thank you, sir. have a good night. coming up next, the russian investigation, and major change of face, when it comes to providing possible evidence from facebook. well have details when we continue. ♪ ♪ integrate any part of your business, and have your systems work as one. the ibm cloud. the cloud for enterprise. yours.

>> youre minimizing. >> theyre more targeted to an audience than an ad running -- >> i think thats a little trump spin to keep things down, and thats all we know of it. look, i think theres an interesting parallel in this to me, if you look back a couple years ago, when really the issue of online bullying and online sexual predators started to get more attention, maybe eight years ago or so. and facebook and the other platforms said, theres nothing we can do. we have to be hands off, all we can ...