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This is an instant in which people can die. >> absolutely. and the man who wrote this opinion piece bruce is one of the world's foremost experts on security. he is at the kennedy school of harvard. he is one of the people who i pay closest attention to on all matters of security. and the point that he is raising here is the same issue that underlies a lot of the problems that we have seen with the anti-vax world, that we have seen with election interference, which is the fact that the business model of facebook and of many of the other platforms is designed to amplify content that we engage wi...

Same. a warning about a pandemic or a warning about a nuclear attack is treated the same as a piece of conspiracy theory. and that is just an intolerable situation. we just need to get on top of it. >> so for people who say, hey, we don't know what the russian interference did in terms of the outcome of an election, the pandemic example is really good one because you will know when people require information about something to make a decision as they did in an election, but here it may have to do with health, and they get the wrong information, and then we confront facebook and others about th...

Of move fast and break things. there's no evidence that facebook knows how to operate a currency. there is every reason to believe there are real risks. they say hey, you know, they're going to protect your privacy but we have a lot of evidence that says that's not going to be the outcome. >> roger, always good to see you, my friend. thank you very much. early and current investor in facebook and author of "zucked: waking up to the facebook catastrophe." up next, deeper look by the federal reserve to leave interest rates unchanged means for the markets and economy moving forward. there's a l...

Government-sponsored video, social media campaigns, international experts. that's the way it works. but can you imagine a way to goes completely the other direction. roger, while i have you here i want to ask you about libra, the currency facebook is developing alongside with the credit card companies and paypal and others. what is your initial thought on this? it's a digital currency, not bitcoin, not using blockchain necessarily. what do you think? >> those are the key points, that this is crypto unlike any other. and that may be a good thing or bad thing. we do not know. it doesn't look lik...

Inoculating the population. the second, and i'm quoting from the article is new. and one you might not have thought much about. fighting the deluge of rumors, misinformation and flat-out lies that will appear on the internet. we have seen the power of misinformation when it comes to particularly health, particularly with falsities spread by the anti-vaccination community. but there is also the danger being spread with malicious intent "the times" warns it is reasonable to assume that a country would deliberaty spread intentional lies in an attempt to increase death and chaos. joining me to hav...