great news for the american worker and american companies, and it prevents an all-out trade war with south korea keeping them out of the cross hairs of the steel tariffs they were trying to avoid. interesting night at the white house. shannon: kevin cork, thanks for filling us in. you would think some of those trade war fears easing would help. it did yesterday with the markets but they plummeted today, traders with blaming facebook, stock down 20% from the february high. the ftc and 37 states attorney general are investigating facebook and cook county illinois is suing the company. the lawsuit states they violated fraud law and it isn t a social media company it is the largest data mining operation in existence. founder and ceo mark zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before congress april 10. breaking news on the sanctuary state showdown, straight ahead. the rebellion against the resistance got uglyler. we head to orange county for the latest.
so that s my little ode to not fake news at the new york times. the washington post now is reporting tonight that the obama campaign had a similar data mining operation in 2012 that allowed them to build a database of voters. facebook changed its rules in 2015 after concerns about misuse. do you see a difference between these stories? absolutely. the obama data mining operation was basically, they had an app, you knew what you were signing up for with that. it was up front and very clear about what you were signing up for as a user. the cambridge analytica app was not. it said it was for academic use. you know, you were going to provide this data, it was going to scrape your friends, for academic use. and it wasn t. it was to put in the hands of a very conservative billionaire in steve bannon who wanted to reshape american culture, political culture. i think there s an important difference there. i think on facebook s end, what
and it seemed really hard at times to figure out what the heck was going on. you thought the whole process was manipulated in ways we d never be able to figure out what happened. i think what the reporters did in the new york times and others in england was to at least show that the acquiescence of these companies to allow these platforms to be abused was actually a choice they made. if we can make the market have them have another choice, then maybe we will actually begin to defend our democratic processes. so that s my little ode to not fake news at the new york times. the washington post now is reporting tonight that the obama campaign had a similar data mining operation in 2012 that allowed them to build a database of voters. facebook changed its rules in 2015 after concerns about misuse. do you see a difference between these stories? absolutely. the obama data mining operation was basically, they had an app, you knew what you were signing up for with that.
federal effort is into, but please repeat the point you made earlier in this hour, about how robust, what you have learn it about the u.s., we ll call it counter spying for civilians, the sizable data mining operation, data collection operation we went back at the russians with. to tell you the truth, it was more human intelligence than data. if you read the indictment, and jill mentioned this a little earlier, it s very clear there s somebody who worked on the inside and named the names of everyone in this organization right down to their administrative remarks to when they were hired, when they did what, and this only involved about 90 ling wiuists and their management team to go at one of the many troll farms that russians are running. i think what you re seeing in
russian involvement, but the fact that there isn t anybody named here, implies that we had nothing to do with it. because if there was anything, they would have indicted us. which is not that bad of an analysis. and you ll notice to our viewers that according to the expertise of all of our guests, everyone is stringing out different messages from this, malcolm nance, our intelligence expert was saying that what this does is expose a huge data mining operation on the part of the united states once we had reason to believe that bad actors were interfering in our election process. a u.s. data collection operation that included st. pepetersburst russia, but was hardly limited to st. petersburg in russia. we are also joined at this hour by richard painter, former white house ethics lawyer under george w. bush.