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Soon as you liked something or clicked on it the alg rythym would adjust and you would see more or an altered version of thing that got deeper into whatever you are interested in. >> right. the first layer was willing innocuous. click this if you like flags, gun rights. not offensive. once you are in there it began their subscribe and divide idea. and then they started pumping heinous material at you in your news feed hoping to influence your fwran and those you chose to share it with. >> the names used on the handles all of them are fake. this one is called haefrt texas. there are pro veteran...

115 has reaction online. >> largest pro black lives matter facebook page is a scam, the page is actually run by an australian man named ian mckay and the money raised went directly to an australian bank account. that fake page has acquired over 700,000 facebook followers before it was removed. some folks on social media tweeting about this and people targeting black lives matter including this twitter user who says a scam within a scam within a scam and paula says it is a bunch of smoke and mirrors, all lives matter and kin tweets the biggest blm page on facebook has something in common with c...

>> you were outed in 2015, a local reporter from spokane, washington, raises a question with you at the end of a 20-minute interview. in the book you say you regret the way in which you answered the question. i'm about to give you a second chance. let's first remind people of what occurred. >> are you african-american? >> i don't understand the question. >> how should you have answered that question? i'll give you a mulligan. what should you have said? >> well, if i would have had time to really, you know, discuss my identity, i probably would have described a more complex label, pan african, ...

Discuss my identity, i probably would have described a more complex label, pan african, pro black, bisexual mother artist, activist, but i think the question are you african-american, i haven't identified as african-american. i've identified as black. and black is a culture, a philosophy, a political and social view. i believe that race is a social construct. and so, you know, i felt like in that interview i didn't have time to unpack all of that. but, you know, it became clear very quickly that people did want to unpack those more complex definitions, terms and even my personal identity. peop...

Black people have a bias that is roughly split. half, pro black. half of it is pro white. >> let me tell you. >> which is extraordinary. >> whites and east asians have strongest pro white anti-black biases. by yals iases strongest, 65 and. 18-24, ranged second in the age groups. everybody has it. some people have it more. >> generational too. coming from a different experience. unfortunately. >> what the data showed, very interesting as well. older people had it. also college aged kids were the second highest, group with the second highest rates of bias. pro white anti-black bias. we need to d...