out there to see and print and on the air, they realized going to trial court not end well for them and be a pr nightmare in the process. in this case, msnbc you played, they quickly come to mind because it was according to one of the producers where order was given to follow the jury bus, that same producer runs a red light, you could recently conclude to keep up and they got caught in the whole reason to follow was to photograph the jury. if that s the case, that s intimidation and this is a news organization, not angry protesters so we have to start there and you have to believe they will be at the top of the list, followed by many news organizations who painted kyle rittenhouse a racist and white supremacist declared guilty before been proven innocent this opposite of how the justice system works in this country. jon: one of them labeled him white supremacist is joseph biden who now occupies the white
and we were given the reaction to the big announcement. that is really the question of the day. i think what s more important is who gets to define what the metaverse is. in a lot of ways, it s just a buzzword, but what we are talking about is the future of the internet and the future of technology. we re at a crossroads where we need to decide whether we will allow the mark zuckerbergs of the world to continue to define and control what the next generation of the internet looks like or whether we will fight for policies to ensure we have real choices. so we don t have too few companies that essentially have a monopoly over human attention. i m going to talk to you injust a moment about what kinds of policies we might be able to put in places, as you point out, but in the first instance, i want to ask you this rebranding exercise, is it really going to be effective and take away from the pr nightmare we ve seen
the pr nightmare we ve seen facebook go through this week? i certainly hope not, and i don t think so. it s hard to view this as anything more than a cynical attempt for facebook to distance itself from the reality and what we ve learned so clearly through these documents over the last several months and from previous facebook whistle blowers and employees who pointed out that the company effectively employs a surveillance driven business model that s fundamentally incompatible with basic human rights and democracy. so i don t think that journalists will stop looking into that or scrutinising this company s scrutinising this compa ny s behaviour scrutinising this company s behaviour because. when we look at some behaviour because. .. when we look at some of behaviour because. when we look at some of the behaviour because. when we look at some of the issues - behaviour because. when we | look at some of the issues that facebook is facing right now, i think we really have to stop an
papers, the facebook papers, but at this point the only thing facebook is suffering from is a pr nightmare. their business is booming, the growth is booming, advertisers love that whether they say it in public or not, but what francis haugen did was send those papers to the scc. what is the possibility of this turning into a legal issue, because anyone on facebook can turn their giant tv screens off, rip up the paper and they don t have to deal with this. they re still really rich. yes, they are extremely rich and they re getting richer each quarter. you re absolutely right. as a business facebook hasn t been impacted by any of this. what haugen did was provide an education to the scc, any regulators who are looking to levee any kind of fine on facebook. it would be like an investigaor
taliban. you have the political wing that is about to hold peace talks with high-level delegation from the afghan government in qatar in the coming days. you have a taliban that is trying to present itself as this alternative, legitimate governing body when in actual fact what this video shows is that it is still the same, brutal, prime evil group it has always been. maybe a pr nightmare for the taliban but an actual nightmare for the families of those who apparently were executed and maybe the people in afghanistan. anna coren, thank you so much for that reporting. and let s talk with jack murphy, a former an army ranger and green beret retired who has been deployed to iraq and afghanistan and also the author of murphy s law, my journey from army ranger and green beret to investigative journalist.