breaking news president trump has reacted to the congressional measure which blocked his emergency declaration. he said i look forward to vetoing the just passed democrat inspired resolution which would open borders while increasing crime, drugs and trafficking in our country. coming up facebook is facing a federal criminal investigation into its data sharing deals with several tech companies. after the break i ll be joined by the man who literally wrote the book on damage facebook is doing to society. you are watching msnbc.
nbc news.com has an in depth look at this in a series called powering the future. facebook is facing another investigation into its data privacy practices. the new york times reports federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into the company s data agreements with technology companies. according to the paper a grand jury subpoenaed information from at least two companies known for making smart phones and other devices. the times reports there are some 150 companies, including microsoft, yahoo! apple and samsung, that had agreements to access information from hundreds of millions of users, sometimes without their concept, the deals have been phased out over the past r past two years. a facebook spokesman gave this statement we cooperating with investors and take those probes seriously. we provided public testimony, answered questions and pledged we will continue to do so. when the deals were first revealed last year, facebook argued it did not give companies
access to information without user permission and it did not violate a 2011 agreement with the federal trade commission. joining me now to take a closer look at this is the co-founder of the private equity firm elevation partners and early investor of facebook. he s the author of the new book you have to read called zuc k d, waking up to the facebook catastrophe. congratulations on the book. there s so much stuff you tackle that we ve been talking about a long time. i want to talk to you about mark zuckerberg saying last week, i understand many people don t think facebook can or would even want to build this kind of privacy-focused platform because frankly we don t currently have a strong reputation of building privacy-protected services and focused observe tools for more open sharing. but we have repeatedly shown we can evolve to build the services people really want, including private messaging and stories. the whole point is he says they
trusted sources. let s say for the sake of argument that two lean left, npr and new york times, that would shift the balance in zuckerberg s words from users on the right and left. this is a surrender to the crowd that could further damage facebook s reputation for fairness. that s it for this issue on media buzz. i m howard kurtz. i m one of those interviews, check it out. hope you like facebook page, i try to interact with you, let m. know what you think on twitter at howardkurtz and you can e-mail as always at media buzz at foxnews.com. let us know what you think. see you next sunday. we are back here atwe