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Cignet warned that profits will be light next year. the company blames hurricanes and weak sales for a challenging quarter. cignet is also going to shudder stores in 2018. the stock dropped 30% on that news. that's its worst day in 25 years. meantime, facebook is under fire yet again for allowing discriminatory ad targeting. in a new report, they were able to purchase dozens of ads for home rentals that excluded specific groups including african americans, jews and spanish speakers. the ad placements were the result of a failure in our enforcement. facebook updated its rules in february to t...

Tech. tech stocks rose yesterday. overall tech is up 38% this year. megawhitman is stepping down as ceo of hp. she will remain on the company's board. current president and 20-year hp vetd r veteran will take over. her departure reduces the number of women leaving s&p companies to just 5. kay, jared and zales warned that profits will be light next year. cignet will also shudder 125 stores in 2018. its stock dropped 30% on this news. and facebook is under fire yet again for allowing discriminatory ad targeting. in a new report, they were able to purchase dozens of ads for home rentals tha...

Have the tweet. he says facebook was always antitrump. the networks were antitrump, hence fake news, new yo"new yor times" apologized and "washington post" were antitrump. collusion? >> facebook is pro facebook. they want you to spend more time on facebook. and that's why this ad targeting is an issue because it's not going to stop in 2016. it didn't. it's not going to stop now. we're going to continue to see various countries, interest groups, use ad targeting on a personal way to reach individuals and you don't always know what they're motives have. it's reminding us or teaching us that and ...

Interference in our campaign at some point donald trump has to stop worrying whether or not this affects legitimacy of his election and worry whether or not it affects our democracy, and major implications. how he think about protecting our elections. one hand, we all know facebook's secret sauce, ad targeting. getting people to change their minds. what shoes you buy and in this case, who you vote for, for president. the russians found a new way to influence the election like hacking john podesta the e-mails and releasing them. another story to review the implications for this investigation. w...

And what the special counsel can do is take all of this, factor it in to his ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. election and this is where things get really important, the question about whether or not any of the campaign's own ad targeting was used by these russian patrols for their own ad targeting via facebook. a lot of questions here, a lot of unknowns, but all of that material is now in the hands of the special counsel and he can use that in his investigation going forward. >> at least we know it's an interest of the special counsel for sure. but also do we know if fa...