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Reversal of the way our systems of laws work. of innocent until proven guilty. and ultimately the accuser here is not so much an individual as a computer algorithm that says you made a phone call or a phone call seems to be attached to you, a server, a community of calls that you're a mart of. and thereby it's almost like, you know, you start with the lottery subset and next thing you know you're at the 7-eleven where they bought the tickets. well now you're at the 7-eleven where that rlottery ticket was bought and you may be in that group and all the while you don't know that you're in the la...

Neither of those is is an argument for we should be doing this. we are now as a country having an argument about whether we should be doing this. we didn't know to argue about it before because we didn't know for sure it was happening. we all suspected it. do you feel we were having a reasonable debate that's well informed? >> i think right now what's happening is people are coming around again and again. it takes a while. it's taken the american people i think a while for their eyes to adjust, if you know what i mean. say, wait a second, this is how it works. i'm leaving a data trail wherever...

you're going to look at show the massive damage in the small town of harveyville, kansas. that's destroyed homes and trees uprooted and power lines down as well. take a look at this. a twister captured on film by a storm chaser in kansas in missouri where two people died. joining me now is wendell edwards. he's live from branson, missouri. set the scene for us. how bad is the damage? >> reporter: you know, randi, it's pretty bad. take a look at what is going on. this is a vitamin and health food store. people are just now assessing the damage and trying to clean up and see what is le...

>> we only show the most trust worthy content that we have faith in. we're blessed we have 21 million reviews that allow us to do that. we have a strong community of users that are able to flag content they think is suspicious. >> julie: to combat the problem, researchers published a study about creating a computer algorithm to distinguish fake from real. they tend to use words like i and me more frequently and less actual description. if you're not an expert at cornell, it's safe to assume when reading 200 different reviews, ignore the extremes like it's the best place in the world or the wor...

Third one. greg? >> thank you, andy. >> happy make fun of short people day, greg. >> what? >> make fun of short people day was started in 1834 after the spanish inquisition was finished. >> shut up. >> and maria kristina thought she would replace the inquisition with something more lighthearted. so she established make fun of short people day where they could mock dwarves, midgets and the rest of the height challenged jie. there were no good days today. >> so you made up something toward short people as a jab to me? >> it was chosen by a computer algorithm. >> and it came up with make fun of s...