In washington could eventually lead to tighter regulation of online advertising. One example of whats being questioned is the 3,000 adverts which facebook said were focused on divisive social and political messages around the election and were bought in russia. Facebook has shared them with congress. In terms of their influence, facebook estimates that they were seen by about ten Million People before and after novembers poll. Tech firms are concerned about the prospect of new regulation, and in the last week or so both twitter and facebook said they will improve Advertising Transparency especially when it comes to political ads. Dave lee explains. I have just received a call from secretary clinton. Nobody disputes the donald trump won the us president ial election. What is under scrutiny now is the extent to which social media sites were manipulated in order to sway the mind of american voters. Russian president Vladimir Putin denies his country has done anything. A whole facebook sai
Lenin thinking about you, taking care of you, or just watching you. Get in touch with us using the hashtag beyond one hundred days hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Donald trump today wants to talk about tax reform, his asia trip, Hillary Clinton and even the white houses halloween decorations, but american journalists, prosecutors and lawmakers are all consumed with the dramatic developments in the russia investigation. No amount of candy is going to change that. Meanwhile on capitol hill, the three Big Tech Companies are being hauled in to answer questions about their unwitting involvement in moscows bid to meddle in the 2016 election. In detailed disclosures sent to congress on monday, facebook revealed the Internet Research agency, a Russian Company linked to the kremlin, had posted 80,000 ads over two years. Roughly 110 a day. 29 Million People accessed them directly, before and after the election. Those posts were liked, shared orfoll
Bump in the road. Has accusations of bias as a valid to change the way stories are trending. Follow me on twitter. That is my handle. Ere as use that hashtag th well. Hong kong getting underway in about 30 minutes. Singapore and Malaysia Online as we speak. Lets have a look at what is going on. Fed speaks, that is when the market reacts. That is being reflected in the early asian session. Singapore, malaysia, and taiwan coming online. Take a look at taiwan. About up we are off by. 25 . The biggest move in nine months on the account of heavy buying into some of these tech stocks. We are seeing some of those names giving back gains today. There was the story of potential demand for the new iphone coming through and the impact on the taiwanese iphone suppliers as well. Elsewhere across the region, the tradingown by. 7 as gets underway. That is weighing on exporters, consumer names, retailers. In particular, automakers and electronics names giving up gains today. Selling coming through fro
Volkswagen hopes to clear the air, since the cheating scandal emerged in september. A very warm welcome to the program. This is countdown. Live from london, i am anna edwards. Manus and i am manus cranny live in dubai. You have a chart. Anna when we need the keep an eye on of course. This is the implied probability of the betting market of brexit. , 25. 68 . Down at 26 last week we went as high as over 40 on this particular measure of whether it was likely or not we would see a brexit. Of course last night, manus was dominated, the heated exchanges at wembley arena, maurice a holding pop concerts, but that was the faceoff between the remain and leave campaigners. It seems that we have some big moves on monday, slightly smaller than yesterday. Now just pausing for thoughts, manus seems to be the way we describe this morning. Manus we are, indeed. The riska look at radar. I think it is fascinating. We have done a little bit of that isour pound index, what you want to look at. What you ha
Manus i am manus cranny. Iraq get on board, business is coming. That is the message in the market. Maybe i am overly excited. Have a look at this. The morning of brexit, you and i were here, it was 5 00 a. M. Talking about the Demolition Derby happening. Here we go. This is the msci allworld. There is the brexit referendum, down she went. The msci as rally for a fourth day in a row, up 8 from the worst position. We have reapplied, redeliver to value, 3. 5 trillion whiteout is back on the agenda. Is a new record in 13 months. Stoxx 600 up 4 . There is no doubt about it. Fromthat midyear moment, that real sort of panic moment in the markets, you have this search. It is going to be ok. There is no playbook. It is called the lehman moment. Stimulus boots out there. Anna we will see how long that president atry price the moment. At the forecast, forecast in line. Lets have a look at the risk radar and show you various assets. The japanese story, the chief cabinet secretary denying that the