love the details. let s start with one of the things is they re planning this in 2014/2015 to try to lay the groundwork. what kind of stuff was he up to? he got this john gauger, who is a tech consultant who works at liberty university run by jerry fall well jr. and had been doing minor tech tasks for cohen for years. so cohen says hey, i want you to help the boss win this cnbc poll of the most influential business people. and can you write a computer script to vote for him a ton of times and gogger tries but he doesn t make the second cut to the top 100. and as you ve read, he complauns about it. he tries to rig other polls, right? a thing of trying to essentially
payment to a tech firm should have been disclosed. joining me now are the authors of that cohen article. love the details. let s start with one of the things is they re planning this in 2014/2015 to try to lay the groundwork. what kind of stuff was he up to? he got this john gauger, who is a tech consultant who works at liberty university run by jerry fall well jr. and had been doing minor tech tasks for cohen for years. so cohen says hey, i want you to help the boss win this cnbc poll of the most influential business people.
but this was contributed by a very evil person or people with no regard for human life that would do this against american soldiers, that would walk into cafes with innocent children and blow themselves up all in the name of what they think their god represents. this is a cancer that needs crushed and it needs rejected within the ideology of islam. i do wonder you say this is a boon for recruiting for isis, this announcement. are u.s. troops less safe after the president has made this announcement? before today there has been only two u.s. deaths killed in action in syria since the campaign began there in 2014/2015. do you think we re going to see more of this now? i don t know. agai again, i do know this. i know when america retreats, chaos fills a vacuum. we were critical against
clearly hasn t happened. exactly. we thought it might be dying down a little bit after the hearing. trust me, he did not want to go before congress. it was the last thing he wanted to do. you know, he hates that. most tech ceos absolutely hate that. but it turns out that there are deeper consequences to this. i think one of the questions is whether there are discrepancies and what zuckerberg told the lawmakers and told the public which would be material information to investors and what actually happened in 2014/2015, which was the years the period when cambridge analytica was siph siphoning the data from facebook. another big question of course is why didn t they tell the public at the time when they found out that all this data was taken in an inappropriate way? should they have informed the public? and there s interesting, if you pay close attention to the hearing, there s interesting what you d say are discrepancies and the different accounts of how the different parties have t
and so this is sort of their attempt to say we re going to try to do better going forward. mark zuckerberg s defense, is there an argument to be made? no one even a few years ago would have ever guessed it could get this big. and it is a new company. it s only been in our eye really for the last ten years. so could one make the argument he created a monster, an extraordinary monster, and now it s time to revamp or revisit? because even zuckerberg couldn t have guessed it would get this big. i think that s the problem we keep seeing with facebook is they re constantly looking backwards, right. we saw this with them selling as to russian propaganda groups. they apologize. they put in place all these new restrictions. that s the same thing with this data crisis. yes, they stopped the loophole that allowed you to scoop up everybody s friend s data in 2014/2015, but they never did anything to make sure all that data was being used properly. now who knows how long these audits retrospect