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Anonymity of social media and the switch that is flipped that allows people to act on violent impulses. its a combination of the two, and i think, sadly, that may be impossible to predict with an algorithm. >> thats okay. i want to get -- somebody has a real threat online, i would like action to be taken. but im nervous about these algorithms come too. member, with these algorithms that have been shutting down pro-life speech, a lot of pro-life speech has been shut down on twitter and on faceboo...

Beautiful cafeteria. the street life had changed dramatically in a short amount of time. its everywhere in the city. it didnt use to have so much problem. you cant walk through the streets without seeing it. i think the issue is how do you create a civil city thats enjoyable to live in at the same time and kind to its lowest citizens and most abject citizens. at the same time get tech companies that have benefitted from being in san francisco to pay their fair share. i think they have a civic re...

They cant see that americans want to use better technology to limit collateral damage so that you arent hurting innocent civilians. you can target more precise then youre going after terrorists. big tech has replaced big banks. the reason i say its in the minefield, each side, republicans democrats, are mad at the tech ceos. >> greg: tech is wall street. everybody hated wall street. now wall street is relevant really intact. >> juan: you always talk about ai, artificial intelligence. what would ...

That led to these huge parts of the country -- think about people who lost their homes in sub prime and worked in the auto industry, and i dont mean the auto executives. >> or manufacturing. >> yes. they said yeah, i get it. the tech industry has rocked it. the obama administration loved tech ceos. people in cities did well. the market did well. but the rest of the country didnt. that hasnt changed under president trump, and its noteworthy that people who are running in the midterms are not runn...

Inauthentic behavior of pushing these stories of what are sometimes called fake news, sometimes called disinformation, pushing those over and over again in front of peoples eyeballs and trying to raise the divisiveness in the american society overall. >> mark zuckerberg has been criticized for not taking this seriously enough. how much personal responsibility do you think he and other tech ceos bear for this? >> well, you know, its hard to say. were at this intersection of these huge historical ...

For that coordinated inauthentic behavior of pushing the stories of what is sometimes called fake news, sometimes called disinformation of pushing those over and over again in front of peoples eyeballs and trying to raise the divisiveness in american society overall. >> mark zuckerberg has been criticized for not taking this seriously enough. how much personal responsibility do you think and other tech ceos bear for this? >> well, you know, its hard to say. were at this intersection of these hug...

On the traditional types of cyber security threats from russia we expected around the election, particularly the hacking campaign. and what we did see, we turned over proactively to federal law enforcement. what wasnt of -- as something that we were looking into as deeply at the time was the pure problem began do activities and thats where i think the companies have really made big steps in the last two years to have dedicated teams looking for propaganda actors as well as a bunch of technology ...

Have dedicated teams looking for propaganda actors as well as a bunch of technology that makes for that coordinated inauthentic behavior of pushing the stories of what is sometimes called fake news, sometimes called disinformation of pushing those over and over again in front of peoples eyeballs and trying to raise the divisiveness in american society overall. >> mark zuckerberg has been criticized for not taking this seriously enough. how much personal responsibility do you think and other tech...

Lot of corporate ceos, tech ceos, big titans of companies, they are all saying the same things now, if we want to see our companies grow, if we want to see our companies thrive in the 21st century economy, diversity is the future. the fact that newsrooms and media companies havent picked up on that is sad and it speaks to the fact -- it speaks to how the coverage is done. why no one is talking about chicago is because there arent enough african-americans in the newsroom. >> ed: gianno -- >> we a...

Companies admit to being a media company? for so long its been about the open public square and having it a place to have freedom of speech. now they are starting to see some of those society divisions really coming to fruition here. a lot of these top tech ceos and the executives that surround them are telling me they are thinking twice about whats bei going on. >> alex jones may want to lump himself into conservative outlets. he is a conspiracy theorist who has lied repeatedly. thank you so mu...