they re not elected. they re not accountable. that s the part i m pushing back on. that s the part they refuse to engage on. you have very specific presentatives in the book, you say once you get past the buzzwords, tech is not particularly complicated in comparison to other industries that congress regulates. health care and banking are complex industries congress has been able to regulate effectively despite the fact that relatively few policymakers have had as much involvement with them as they have with technology. which touches everyone including members of congress on a daily bade sis. i heard you say earlier today, you re confident about the young congress, it has young people who seem to understand technology. people now understand there s a real issue and thiey need to get engaged. there s more to it. my optimism, ali, a big part of what i devote the book to, we, human s formerly known as users have way more power in this equation than we realize because facebook and googl
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single member of the military because they are facing the same shortages themselves. listen to what manuela had to say. i don t know. i hope they don t hold a gown anybody. we are unarmed. we have no arms. we have only our body and we are going to walk for to welcome the national aid for venezuela. that are could begin as early as tomorrow if the aid arrives there. if not, at least by the end of the week. for us in venezuela. thank you, sir. after the break, facebook investor and former mentor to mark zuckerberg talks about his new book out today. this is a must read. zucked. waking up to the facebook ta ka taft officery and the damage they are doing by preying on our
there. and importantly, work your congress people. work your senators. work the president. make sure that they know intervention is required. nbc s just actually confirmed right now that facebook is adding what they re calling a fact-checking partner to crack down on misinformation on the site. it says it s going to help detect trending hoaxes from hundreds of known fake news sites, satirical websites and prank generators. except they just chased snopes off the site last week, the best debunker of conspiracy theories out there. they ve also denied access to their election database, to propublica. i mean, that i do all these things that are cosmetic that sound like they re great, but wait until the dust settles. let s see if that thing is still in place. roger, i could sit and talk with you about fis tthis for ho. we have. thank you for the hard work you ve done. thank you for your help. you ve helped our viewers understand what is possibly one of the most complex issues of ou
well, i would just say this, which is that, you know, i m an analyst, i followed tech since 1982, followed facebook closely since 2006, and the problem we have here is i do believe they ve made some changes, but they re largely cosmetic. the real challenge here, ali, and this is the thing, just last week, facebook was busted by apple along with google for creating what they call and they did this by breaking in illegally around the app store, but what s really bad about in is a large percentage of the people got that product were under 18. they were minors. right. not in a position to make a judgment. the prior week facebook was busted in a lawsuit for basically a product designed to trick kids right. into buying stuff. thousand dollar bills on their parents credit cards. i mean, i m sorry, guys, you re