analyst kerry allen. there was a post yesterday that was made on pung shwai s weibo account, weibo being china s version of say facebook or twitter. and it was a long post, and in this post she claimed thatjung gao li, who was a former vice premier, a very senior figure under president xijinping, had forced her into having relations. she said in this post as well that she has no evidence to back up these claims, but this post and now has seemingly been taken down or has been censored because it no longer exists. but there is evidence on weibo that this post racked up 100,000 views and thousands of comments, and there is evidence today i ve seen on weibo that a very tight attempt to stop people from other circulating this news or talking about it. she almost kind of, i don t want to speculate on the post, but she does say that her memory of it is confused and. she doesn t.
conspiracy theory. among 17 different news organizations. obviously, this has been well coordinated by the whistleblower and so what. she knows what she s up against, but i think to call it, he s sort of calling it a conspiracy theory, i think that s what s going on there. that s what it sounds like. and my time in politics when you have no facts and you have no high ground, you allege malarky or a conspiracy theory. donny, i want to bring you in on this notion of a name change. you can t be as big as facebook and sweep your problems under the rug by changing your name, can you? well, it s a strategic decision. they want to be known, the future according to zuckerberg, he s not wrong, is everything is virtual reality and what he s calling the metaverse, where social media and the internet meet virtual reality. they just invested $10 billion in it. he wants to known, it s like say facebook is the cigarette company, but they re into other things that it s just a piece of
instagram is that first childhood cigarette. facebook is in the process of hiding. reporter: in a rare show of bipartisanship, lawmakers hammered facebook. how can parents trust you? reporter: .using the company s own data against it. leaked researched indicated about a third of teen girls, who already feel bad about their bodies, say facebook s instagram makes them feel even worse. this research is a bombshell. this research is a bombshell. i ask you to commit that you will make full disclosure all of the thousands of pages of documents. we are looking for ways to release more research. reporter: facebook s global head of security antigone davis testified a day after the company did release more research, showing that roughlye research 40% of users in the u.s. say their ideas of a perfect image, feeling attractive, and having enough money started on instagram. she says lawmakers are focusing on the wrong information.
with a camera strapped to his head, mimicking the point of view shot of a video game, and then he streamed the whole thing online. and actually so much did it look like call of duty that far right figures have taken that footage and around it, they have placed the elements of a computer game. while many of these are now how to find, it shows how games can be used in a more realised terrorist attack, and reflect the ideologies of the far right. the world just got hit, people. this is not a straightforward story of how games produced terrorists. what we do have here is something more complex and subtle than that. it is about how games can be spaces which allow extremist communities to be sustained and to develop, especially in the face of increased enforcement from places like facebook and twitter. this isn tjust about culture, it s also about money. new research suggests that streaming propaganda on platforms popular with gamers can be used by extremists to monetise their audiences.
difficulty of enforcing it and they difficulty of enforcing it and they all difficulty of enforcing it and they all arrive at some kind of weird they all arrive at some kind of weird point in the middle where they kind weird point in the middle where they kind of have to balance they kind of have to balance the costs they kind of have to balance the costs and on the one side and the costs and on the one side and the the costs and on the one side and the public risks on the other and the public risks on the other and currently, right now, it is other and currently, right now, it isjust other and currently, right now, it isjust less other and currently, right now, it is just less visible that this it is just less visible that this kind of stuff is happening on gaming platforms, they have ust on gaming platforms, they have just had on gaming platforms, they have just had less embarrassment and public just had less embarrassment and public exposure around it. do ou ae