t.v. millie s news team along with a network of reporters on the ground work to fact check the government s message and investigate dodgy practices. a few takes until they get their message right. media in azerbaijan is tightly state controlled but from here they can produce stories that don t pass through government census. nearly eighty percent of people in azerbaijan have access to the internet making social media a very important platform for activists videos like the ones being produced here in berlin will be broadcast to hundreds of thousands via facebook offering an alternative voice to that of the state sponsored mania. millie and his colleagues say they have retained the targeted even here in berlin he says they ve received death threats. we don t enjoy this suffering but if we don t take this risk we personally i would children and our society will never have a chance to become free. merely knows that he alone can change the future. but he s
talked about more transparency that argued that privacy is the fundament of the digitalization facebook who lobbied hard against those things and. to come now with apologies for what happened. is not very trustworthy and so they really have to show action and real things is it possible for germany or the e.u. to exercise influence on companies like facebook. as of course i mean you can see with fox in the us how you treat a company that is not. holding up law and i think we have all the possibilities to regulate a company like facebook europe and germany especially is very important for their business and the government has. all the power in their hands.
they need to to use that. but they didn t so far but actually they are able to do anything they want to to get our constitutional rights and law. by facebook consider a that s how do you feel about your own facebook account will we keep it that we have this discussion since many years we think my office. that is not a good thing just to relieve the people the thirty million people with. fifty and facebook alone so we use it as a platform for more privacy and i don t post private stuff but it s a compromise obviously him. and i think it s from from a law making point of view very bad argument to tell the people if you want your
before one of america s oldest senates almost half of the u.s. senate took part in a hearing that lasted more than five hours zuckerberg who was not sworn in under oath began his first ever congressional appearance with an apology we didn t take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i m sorry. i started facebook i run it and i m responsible for what happens here but that wasn t enough for some senators who want to see facebook take stronger steps to protect user data and privacy possibly under new government regulations your user agreement shock s as a facebook user are you are you willing to give me more control over my data as someone who uses facebook i believe that you should have complete control over your data if we re not communicating this clearly then that s a big thing that we should work on because i think the principles that you re articulating are the ones that we believe in and try to codified in the product
round of questioning this time by the house of representatives or to ask questions in a room. with a decision a friend spokesman of jimmy s green party to get his view on the face the scandal. constantine finance sanity hearing mark zuckerberg apologized is this and the information he provided sufficient. while it s not sufficient enough and apologies are not enough we are now at status were facebook and sucker broke himself really has to show action that they understand that privacy and transparency are the major things they have to provide an hour and they didn t do that enough in the last years if you would have a chance to talk to mark zuckerberg what would you ask him well the interesting question is why did they fight so hard against those in politics that