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Howie: if you did a google search on facebook you would have seen this, that the shooter was anti-trump and liked rachel maddow. they fingered the wrong person. i think this sort of conduct is unacceptable. but the tech giants say these are computer algorithms, we'll do better next time. mollie: fake news is a problem, and people like to blame machines. the massive media companies don't like to be called media companies. a quarter of all humans are on facebook. the second word in social media is media. howie: they are so influential. google picked up chatter from an online message board that c...

Howie: if you did a google search on facebook you would have seen this, that the shooter was anti-trump and liked rachel maddow. they fingered the wrong person. i think this sort of conduct is unacceptable. but the tech giants say these are computer algorithms, we'll do better next time. mollie: fake news is a problem, and people like to blame machines. the massive media companies don't like to be called media companies. a quarter of all humans are on facebook. the second word in social media is media. howie: they are so influential. google picked up chatter from an online message board that

With a virtual entourage of themselves so who they are on tuesday may be different than thursday and that applies to all of us. >> what i find interesting and grounds for hope is the work that you are doing, you're actually using technology to try to do something about this phenomenon. tell us a bit more about what you're up too. >> the decline in civility on the internet has become one of the most universally understood challenges that we face. the question that we asked ourselves is can we use machine learning. can we use artificial intelligence to make it easier for publishers to spot toxic...

Individual is walking around with a virtual entourage of themselves so who they are on tuesday may be different than thursday and that applies to all of us. >> what i find interesting and grounds for hope is the work that you are doing, you're actually using technology to try to do something about this phenomenon. tell us a bit more about what you're up too. >> the decline in civility on the internet has become one of the most universally understood challenges that we face. the question that we asked ourselves is can we use machine learning. can we use artificial intelligence to make it easier...

It's probably not a big issue today. but we have to republican the same technologies are being used by government where revealing political leaning or sexual orientation can be a matter of life or death. >> so that's an important point. the russian government which is very media and tech savvy, as we know, can probably determine who -- where the political opposition would lie without anybody else saying anything. without anybody publishing an op-ed or attending a demonstration. >> exactly. just based on your music play lists or the books you have read. even if you have never read anything rela...