the algorithm if they want to. bill: that s like throwing open the hood. as a private company as a publicly traded company you would allow that to happen? what we explain in our transparency center is the times of content we reduce the distribution of. it s not showing the 1s and 0s. i m not an engineer. it wouldn t mean anything to me or most of the public but we re clear how we do the ranking. bill: monika, i want to go back to the outage on monday. there was a report we have not confirmed about more than a billion users of facebook had their private information leaked back toward the end of september. a, is that true? and b, can you deny that ransomware had anything to do
if you want to see posts in chronological or reverse chronological order, you can. but since we re talking about the algorithm, and potential for polarization, we publish the content we demote, meaning reduce the distribution of. that includes click bait, engagement bait bauds we want people to have a good experience on the service. i just want to say, i understand the temptation to blame polarization on this industry, but if you look, the research is very clear that polarization in this country has been going up for decades before social media even existed. and if you look at other western democracies i suppose. the research that i ve the research that i ve seen is that when social media got popular, poplarization got worse, and i think there are loads of research that suggests that also, but monica bickert, we appreciate you coming on. we know you have to go. i could talk to you much longer about what you re asking congress for, and how you plan
they were kind of embarrassing. and, you know, the president was very angry. and i think that was the point where they severely restricted the distribution of those kinds of transcripts. and now apparently are putting them in the sort of special storage system which usually is used for operations, military operations, and covert operations that are being conducted abroad, things that they really need to make secret and limit the distribution of. the goal of this basically was to limit the distribution that people in the room when this conversation was going on very quickly said this is not good. we need to limit the number of people that can read this and have access to it. and, karen, the historical echo of the cover-up being perhaps as egregious in this instance as the crime is undeniable. i want to read you some of what
still works best if france and germany find a very strong common commitment and i think the prove is that what you have described there is very very is on coincident germany it is going to take. in the strongest countries very democratic and that s not the that s not the whole story i think there is part of the story so many tatars already yes part of the story is that france and germany have been a berry have been having a very strong commitment together which is implemented in these 2 positions but as well there was a very strong commitment of the eastern and states that wanted to to bear another candidate they had a rather destructive approach to the process and there are successful because mr timmons is not the commission president now you may like of this like it but they had their say as well and the distribution of. the other posts has been done on a made female basis on other considerations but i think the east has this time not had a constructive approach to the setting of the
area where the olympics was last boycotted? i would say this law absolutely amounts to discrimination against gay people. that is who it singles out. it bans the distribution of, quote, propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to children. obviously, ambiguous in its meaning, but clear in its intent. there have already been arrests here in russia. and some dutch filmmakers who interviewed a teenager about the gay community. here we are, 179 days away from the winter olympics in sochi, russia. and we re hearing strong reaction from top leaders in government, arts and sports. some celebrities have been all out calling for a boycott of the olympics. lady gaga tweeted, why didn t you arrest me when you had the chance, russia? was it because you didn t want to answer to the world? and twice president has spoken against this law.