Know my missile is better than in guys everybody that i want to put whos paying the price for it the civilians and the poor. Of some of the situation in the world is getting more chaotic the president is talking to other allies i hope that they will come to an agreement on a considerable and joint effort will that response be a military response i think so. Also coming up of facebook under fire and the non grilling of Mark Zuckerberg on capitol hill there is a common misperception as you say that its just reported often keeps on being reported that for some reason we sell data i cant be clear on this topic we dont sell data. We begin the day minus the element of surprise in syria when he ran for Office Donald trump repeatedly lashed out at his opponent and president obama for revealing too much and always giving the enemy an edge when now that he is president mr trump is struggling to keep a secret as he decides how to respond to yet another alleged chemical weapons attack in syria today he tweeted a serious warning to russia for its support of the Syrian Regime and at the same time warned of incoming missiles tweeted russia valves to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and smart you shouldnt be partners with a gas killing an animal who kills his people and enjoys it or. Heard the message his troops have spent the past forty eight hours repositioning themselves along with vital weapons so far the battle over syria has been played out at the u. N. Security council where both the u. S. And russia have made it clear they do not believe what the other resay. These images shocked the world the young survivors of an alleged chemical weapons attack in duma Eastern Ghouta last saturday what happened here has sent tensions between russia and the west soaring to new heights u. S. President donald trump said syria would pay a big price. U. S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said the u. S. Military was still assessing the situation but didnt rule out a strike we stand ready to provide military option to their appropriate as the president determined. U. S. Warships left port on wednesday on route to the middle east theyre not due to arrive for weeks indicating washington means to keep up the pressure. Meanwhile russia has moved fast to establish itself in duma this amateur video purportedly shows Russian Police investigating near the side of the attack moscow says it and the regime are ready to allow a probe which shouldnt assign blame and the kremlin has argued that caution is in order. We do not participate in twitter diplomacy we support a serious approach we still believe that it is important not to take any steps that may harm the already fragile situation in syria we are also still convinced that the excuse regarding the use of chemical weapons in duma is made up and cannot be used as an argument for military action the alleged attack has already shifted syrias battle lines here displaced people from duma arrive in syrias rebel held north resistance collapsed in eastern guta after the attack the refugees are a reminder of the brutal intensity of this war which the International Community has so far remained powerless to stop. Take this story to the u. S. Correspondent Claire Richardson is standing by in washington. Is standing by the russian. I have a question for. A u. S. Strike against Russian Forces in syria how credible is this threat president truong clear ill start with you. At this point a military strike certainly seems like a real possibility and if trump decides to go this route it wont be the first time that his administration has carried out strikes on syria if you remember it was just about a year ago this time of year that the United States took its First Military action against syria striking an air base in an effort to punish the assad regime for what was widely seemed to be as a nother chemical attack so the question becomes if this ad hoc attack that we saw last year was clearly ineffective as a deterrence to prevent it from using chemical weapons against his own people then what would it be about a strike again a single one off shot that could potentially change his calculation this time around and its also unclear what trends Long Term Plan on syria really is if you remember it was just earlier this month that he was saying he wanted to pull all two thousand u. S. Troops out of syria and that was against the advice of his military advisers who wanted to stick around and make sure that they really had this socalled Islamic State in check but now were seeing him very openly calling for military strikes in what could very well escalate the situation. Taking trump and his tweet seriously. Well the moscow has to take it to seriously brand thats why moscow at least publicly is taking to strong warnings as the russian lawmaker said the president and all trumps to be to reflects at dendrites little lights minded approach to critical station constantine cause of shelf the hatto for on the Fast Committee in the upper house of Russian Parliament sat it was really scary to think what kind of people control the large Largest Military arsenal the planet has ever seen and present putin spokesperson about it and we keep this call for just how that in the report sat ironical russia didnt participate into the diplomacy on the other hand brand russians also say very clearly they want to hesitate and would fight back if needed. We are getting a report that is just coming across the u. S. President trump has said that he holds syria and russia both responsible for a chemical weapons attack last week and that is definite it is just coming across on the wires so clear let me. For you and lets look at a tweet from truong another tweet in which he said this our relationship with russia is worse now than it has ever been and that includes the cold war now this is not the donald trump that we have known the last two years i mean is he doubling down on russia to take some of the charge out of special counsel mole or is russia investigation. Well the moeller investigation is definitely whats been dominating the headlines here in the United States however the president is risking a direct confrontation with russia with this kind of rhetoric and you have to remember russia has been one of the shahrazad strongest allies since long before the war they have regularly use their veto power at the United Nations to deny Security Council resolutions that are meant to condemn the asad regime for its actions and it was very intervention in twenty fifteen that was widely seen as the thing that helps change the course of the war in favor of Bashar Assads government so we are talking about a humanitarian crisis that has killed more than half a Million People has displaced more than half of the countrys population and any kind of serious military action that were going to see from the United States is going to require a serious Long Term Strategy and its not apparent that trump has that clear himself. Russia we know has already how it would respond in the. Strong. Mr is a soup can warrant for example in case of an at tack moscow would shoot down any u. S. Missiles fired at syria also russia would obviously target to the launch sites all of the missiles which means u. S. Military bases or Aircraft Carriers and the goals for its goal for example three weeks ago i myself was embedded all along just u. S. Aircraft carrier in the world on the guess as to the roosevelt from which missiles attack targets in syria and iraq so it may well be that from their missiles right now launch to attack president assads armed forces on the ground that warship was one of the largest brant. In the world with more than five thousand marines and Navy Officers on board if russians attacks such and assume that such an Aircraft Carrier americans can face a great danger. And youre we know that russian president Vladimir Putin has called on israel not to take any action that could further destabilize the situation in syria basically you know asking tell of the not to fire any shots right now is the kremlin concerned that it could quickly lose its power and its influence in syria. I dont think so i think the climate is a really of lorient about the potential gas attack in syria the kremlin wants to avoid to direct confrontation with washington im absolutely sure about that by the way i also think that americans do not want a war with russia so israel in this very complicated context seems to be just one more player in the region who also tries to achieve its own goals namely to war in the round and trashing obviously dont want any additional trouble at least on these on this front and they dont want israel to poor even more oil on the fire by the way there are experts in moscow who see israel as a potential media to a negotiator between the United States and russia so well see you know this is an interesting point were also getting a report that the white house is saying that all options remain on the table in dealing with this alleged chemical weapons attack in syria so we dont have any clarity to report tonight clear what about the American Public trying to have Popular Support for his of since of course in syria. But we dont have polling numbers for this particular possibility of a strike but we know that for his strike last year there was a majority of american a majority of americans were on board with that so its going to remain to be seen whether this is equally as popular or whether people are going to look at the past year and the president s past comments and have a change of heart over the correspondent Claire Richardson in washington there at the white house and our Moscow Bureau chief. To both of you you thank. We have watched and listened to what was supposed to be the grilling of facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg on capitol hill there are disappointments and some surprises to report lets start with those photo grillers the senators now perhaps it was a case of not doing their homework or simply not being tech savvy but many senators wasted their allotted time by revealing to zagreb or how little they really know about him and his social media giant one senator today mused about the positive aspects of facebook for his elderly mother some senators treated the hearing like the political theater that it was with one line zenger such as your user agreement sucks mr zucker bird Mr Zuckerberg the boss of a company at the center of what could be a corrupted and rigged us election he did not exhibit the insider knowledge that you would expect from a movie lineal billionaire i mean how many times did he reply to questions from senators with my team will follow up on this and get back with you and what about that philosopher king treatment that was given to zucker bird instead of pushing the c. E. O. On the topics of regulation and more transparency concerning how and why our facebook feeds show what they do senators ask for is a bergs opinion do you think we should regulate you do you think your company is a monopoly well some would say who cares what he thinks he should care what lawmakers are thinking take a look at part of what was said today. And yes or no will you commit to changing all the user default settings to minimize to the greatest extent possible the collection in use or in use of users data you make that commitment congressman if we try to collect and give people the ability id like to answer yes or no if you could will you make the commitment to change all the user to changing all the user default settings to minimize to the greatest extent possible the collection and use of users data that i dont think thats hard for you to say yes to unless im missing something congressman this is a complex issue that i think is deserves more than a one word and well again thats just supporting to me because i think you should make that commitment one to face learn the cambridge Analytical Research project was absolutely for tiger targeted psychographic Political Campaign work congresswoman it might be useful to clarify what actually happened here do you know i dont have time for a long answer that when did facebook learn that and when you learned it did you contact your c. E. O. Immediately and if not why not. Congressman yes we learned in two thousand and fifteen that a Cambridge University researcher associated with the Academic Institution that built into that people chose to know what happened let them but im asking you some answer how question right when when we learned about that we want twenty fifteen you learned about it yes and you spoke to their c. E. O. Immediately we shut down the app did you speak to them as you know immediately we got in touch with them and we asked them to today we demanded that they delete any of the data that they had and their chief data officer told us that they had. So many Unanswered Questions coming out of these two days of testimony i want to pull and it did as you he is an expert in facebook marketing and hes the chief technical officer at blitz metrics he joins us tonight from below and yes if only its good to have you on the day that we get your take what did we just see these past two days on capitol hill and we saw circus where you have a lot of elderly folks that are trying to grow a technologist about a situation that they dont understand and they know the public is demanding that something be done but they dont know what to do so this is actually just a show me a show and at the same time theyre asking zuckerberg to do something that he really doesnt want to do right i mean he doesnt want to be regulated but he cant say that and he doesnt want to reveal his you know his algorithms its almost like cocacola doesnt want to reveal it or divulge the recipe for coke right but i mean something has to happen just take a listen to what he said today a little excerpt a Little Exchange and not with your data included in the data sold to the malicious third parties your personal data yes it was are you willing to change your Business Model in the interest of protecting individual privacy going on than we are have made and are continuing to make changes to reduce the amount of how are you willing to change your Business Model in the interest of protecting individual privacy congresswoman im not sure what that means well i mean i dont the congresswoman didnt she know what she meant to dennis what do you think. No these are slanted questions imagine someone asked you have you stopped beating your wife yes or no just answer my question yes or no if you stop beating your wife so what facebooks trying to do is to be willing to agree to some kind of regulation which is vague because it is what they want to avoid is being broken up right being broken up into instagram and facebook being separate Companies Just like eighteen t. Just like what microsoft was able to avoid right they want to avoid any kind of harsh regulatory action so they havent actually done anything wrong in terms of allowing that as an advertiser you cannot export data from the platform that is that user data that has never been allowed a lot of the apps that humor generally because thats all Marketing Companies that are trying to pretend that they can scare people that they can manipulate elections so they think dealing with the problem is actually a education problem of the government and the users and not actually a security problem so the light appears that hes a face of this and whos going to educate people because. Is it is it Mark Zuckerberg responsibility to make sure that two billion users know all of the the technicalities of private data privacy for example. Thats an almost unsolvable problem because really whos responsible is it disclose is it you know the user where they have to be able to read a six pages and pages of whatever they agree to use and out and fundamentally youre seeing that theres a theres a trade off where people are willing to trade privacy for convenience. What about the situation here in the europe you know there is a new important law thats going to take effect next month and id like to show our viewers one of your tweets you posted a photo of Mr Zuckerberg snow which he used during these testimonies and i was struck by what you see right there in the lower right hand corner the g. D. P. Hard course everyone here in europe knows that you know that stands for the general Data Protection regulation and if you look closely at it you see his notes there. Do these notes tell us that facebook realizes that the europeans have created the Gold Standard for Data Protection as it stands today. Well the way the g. D. P. Are as written is very hard to enforce and no one understands exactly under what situation there is going to be enforceability on how much data do you really need to be able to deliver results and then how do you make sure that if someone has your data that theyre able to remove it facebook has an unsolvable problem where if we say you can only have some data for the purposes of specific marketing where does that stop and where does it end they dont even want to open that can of worms so marks p. R. Nodes is this is instead of saying yes we comply with everything its to not even you know they try to avoid that question entirely and to be able to say generally we agree with protect users generally we want to do everything you know ive met mark multiple times and weve talked about this i truly believe he wants to do the right thing i truly believe that he is here to actually bring the world together instead of to make money even though he is a billionaire i mean do you really believe it is because i know a lot of people watching the testimonies the last few days and when he kept he kept throwing out the Word CommunityBuilding Community and you could see a lot of eyebrows that were rising there and in the chambers people didnt know whether or not he was giving a line or if he really meant that. Is it plausible that he really did want to create communities ten years ago but ten years in social media time is like a century isnt. Yeah and he was that the geeky kid where i would see him in palo alto sneaking around behind the backs of the restaurants trying to avoid the crowds before he became ultra famous and he truly did want to be king and the trouble is when you have a benevolent tech dictator its like the robot that absolutely kills everybody because its trying to you know eliminate you know human errors or you know eliminate humans if youve got someone who firmly believes in bringing People Community bringing people together and the algorithm is determining what you need to see or whats important to you thats actually a fundamental question that Congress Needs to ask that other government leaders that as users need to ask how do we get to control what were seeing theres no dials to do that but its the algorithms and. Up until now we havent been granted access to those algorithms is it going to take an act of congress basically to open up those algorithms to the public so weve actually consulted for the federal trade commission and the f. C. C. About this issue because facebook should imagine that you know it when you go to facebook and you have these different dials on different interest that you cared about and you can see more about sports and less about you know politics or whatever it might be imagine you could do that kind of balancing facebook doesnt want to open that up because that just creates a whole can of worms imagine write these these senators are having trouble even understand the basics of what an ad driven economy looks like imagine if you expose the algorithm right imagine what that does to face between facebook apple amazon all the other players that are competing in the data space they dont want that. I was struck by a comment that Mr Zuckerberg made yesterday when he was talking about the the russian threat to democracy around the world but particularly through the twenty sixteen u. S. President ial election and he said that the russians are constantly improving especially their bots and the threat level is always increasing and he said we have to stay one step ahead of them he sounded like the secretary of defense from the pentagon do you think hes aware of the responsibility that he has or or the position he finds himself in in this nexus of so many huge factors that are coming together do you think you realize where he is i think he now realizes this but before he was able to brush it off by saying look were social media is there anybody can post anybodys opinion but now they are just too big and when they hit that kind of scale then the question becomes well whos able to decide what is news and what isnt News Facebook is now where people go if youre under forty to get your news and there needs to be some kind of regulation but he doesnt know how to do that because he think about freedom of speech you want people to be able to say anything that they want so it was what point do we had you know intervention it ended because the algorithm is unbiased right now whatever has the most engagement is whatever shows are subject to you know few other factors should that change is the question yeah i mean lots of questions but fascinating talking with you dennis you the chief technical officer at blitz metrics dennis thank you and please come back im sure there will be plenty of reasons for us to talk again in the future thank you thank you. Mark zuckerberg testimony was of course a social media event in itself sparking endless means injoke smitty Internet Users poked fun at the stereotype that older people dont understand technology. Here we have comedian Stephen Colbert quipping almost feel bad for zucker berg theres no way he left that room full of old people without have to set up there why five there was also much amusement about the thick cushion virg zat on during his testimony this twitter user judge Mark Zuckerberg in a booster seat looks like hes about to ask the wages for chicken figures and apple juice. Our the day is nearly done but as ever the cover search continues online youll find us on twitter t. V. You can write directly the meter for good news that today every member whatever happens between now and tomorrow is another day well see that in a box. If this is a Parliament Building and that is the president. Then we must be inclosure. Telling the independent republic was created by us his. 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