accounting guy, a business guy. maybe it s time to put engineers at the top. mary, you were the ig far long time. is this also in addition to an engineering problem a regulation problem? yes, it is. it s a huge regulation problem. because federal aviation regulations among other things say the plane has to be aerodynamically stable and this is not without the mcas system in boeing s words. of course they re tweaking it but that isn t going to help this. and you have another problem in federal aviation regulations requiring a redundancy. you cannot have a system that takes data from only one angle of attack indicator. just like you have to have not only double systems in some cases but trip toll resolve the issues. so by relying on one and it s even the patents, i ve read the patent documents. even that s a little fuzzy. but relying on one and having a
president s own account. obviously could talk about devin nunes suing the fictional cow that is trolling him here. do think the bias is real and that this is an animating issue for american s? guy: i think the bias against conservatives in silicon valley israel. jessica: and the people themselves close to mike guy: correct. i think it s overwhelmingly tilted to the left. whether they are deliberately colluding with democrats or whether they just have groupthink and generally are of a left-leaning mentality, i m not sure. but there is a really serious credibility and trust problem for these companies have with a lot of americans. it seems like his apologies for accidentally blocking based on algorithms seem to disproportionately affect one side per that s a perception. i think if they are not serious about ideological diversity within their ranks and transparency, they are going to have a bipartisan regulation problem. harris: we want to get to the breaking news. we promised to
coaster and if people fly off of it, we ll address it then. you and others warned facebook this could happen. right. we asked again on friday to both facebook and youtube who are the number one drivers of these things, i would say. what are you doing to stop white supremacist content? not just the video that went up, the aftermath that happened in part because of your platforms. but what are you doing to stop future attacks from turning racists into extremists because of your algorithms? they didn t provide new answers. they always went back to the p.r. terms and lingo and stuff. but they don t have specific answers right now and we don t know why. one of the reasons could be because they don t actually have a problem yet. they don t have a business problem because advertisers are still there. users are still there. and they don t have a regulation problem because there s no clear pending regulation here in the united states. all they have is a media problem. so why are they actual
changes facebook has rolled out, things like tightening restrictions on third party data providers. and more transparency with preliminary ads and people s personal data. do you think that s enough to convince lawmakers that is there there is a quick fix for facebook s problems? or are these challenges just beyond the scope of a simple engineering? so it s a good question. i do think it will be enough. facebook has been very proactive. like you mentioned, they ve already made changes. starting tomorrow and monday they ll be making more when users log in. you ll be able to see what apps have access to your data. last weekend tinder was down. so we ve seen a lot of changes already happening. i think the government it s not really a facebook problem that is the issue. it s a regulation problem. other players in the space like google, amazon and an legal also have tons of data. the thing is it s not just facebook. as long as there is some regulation in place across the board, then i th