FB May have Influenced The Election and Regulations Should Be Forthcoming?Jail For French President?
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| Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy (center with a worried face) |
In a flurry of media interviews on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he is willing to testify before Congress, that he can't guarantee that Russians didn't get their hands on Facebook user data and that he isn't sure Facebook shouldn't be regulated.
Why it matters: After remaining silent for several days, Mark Zuckerberg has given interviews with outlets including CNN, Wired, the New York Times and Recode. The interviews answer some, but definitely not all of the questions left unanswered by his earlier Facebook post.
Some key comments:
Wired asks "How confident are you that Facebook data didn’t get into the hands of Russian operatives—into the Internet Research Agency, or even into other groups that we may not have found yet?"
I can’t really say that. I hope that we will know that more certainly after we do an audit. He told Recode he is open to testifying before Congress — if he is the right Facebook executive to do so.
I’m open to doing that... We actually do this fairly regularly ... There are lots of different topics that Congress needs and wants to know about, and the way that we approach it is that our responsibility is to make sure that they have access to all of the information that they need to have.
CNN: Do you believe Facebook impacted the 2016 election?
That is hard. It's really hard for me to have a full assessment of that.
CNN: Given the stakes, why shouldn't Facebook be regulated?
I actually am not sure we shouldn't be regulated.
He also finally apologized, in the Recode interview.
We let the community down and I feel really bad and I’m sorry about that.
In the New York Times interview (and he made a similar point on CNN), Zuckerberg painted the issues as hard to foresee.
If you had asked me, when I got started with Facebook, if one of the central things I’d need to work on now is preventing governments from interfering in each other’s elections, there’s no way I thought that’s what I’d be doing if we talked in 2004 in my dorm room.
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From the Publisher:
Trump should take a look at what is happened to the French President Sarkozy of just one election away in France. No one here is saying, President Nicholas Sarkozy is guilty but he is facing charges and will have to answer those charges if his election campaign accepted money from an enemy of France, Putin...I mean Lybia's Gadafi, then.
I caught this on the Staten Herald while I waited at the bank and immediately it was Donald Trump's picture that came to mind. The alleged crimes are similar if the Special Prosecutor connects Putin to Trump which to an untrained eye unless there is hiding evidence to exonerate Trump, Otherwise was the connection of money not just to Trump's campaign but to his son in law Mr. jar
This would be a good show to watch like we have seen it in Italy and other countries but now is happening to a country which used to be the leader of the free world and always a beacon of freedom to so many facing hunger, sickness, and death, not of their own making.
This is a picture Trump has not seen and maybe is up to us to tweet it or somehow remind him that there are laws. Our system works with people of power by giving them lots of rope, so at the beginning, they are doing whatever they want with the rope but at the end, the rope tightens and a noose forms. Ask Nixon and others even though Trump will have the privilege to deliver to his voters the destruction of some of our institutions down. Justice is the first one he has attacked. Why? Dept of Justice with the FBI and Special Prosecutor are the ones that can come after him. Even his staff he has changed so there would be no chance the staff will ask Congress to appoint a replacement because the President can not exercise his powers without destroying us (as the Constitution allows). This is like windows being blown out on a flying jet and now is suffering decompression and anything not nailed down will fly out the windows to the abyss.
Adam Gonzalez for Adamfoxie blog
Why it matters: After remaining silent for several days, Mark Zuckerberg has given interviews with outlets including CNN, Wired, the New York Times and Recode. The interviews answer some, but definitely not all of the questions left unanswered by his earlier Facebook post.
Some key comments:
Wired asks "How confident are you that Facebook data didn’t get into the hands of Russian operatives—into the Internet Research Agency, or even into other groups that we may not have found yet?"
I can’t really say that. I hope that we will know that more certainly after we do an audit. He told Recode he is open to testifying before Congress — if he is the right Facebook executive to do so.
I’m open to doing that... We actually do this fairly regularly ... There are lots of different topics that Congress needs and wants to know about, and the way that we approach it is that our responsibility is to make sure that they have access to all of the information that they need to have.
CNN: Do you believe Facebook impacted the 2016 election?
That is hard. It's really hard for me to have a full assessment of that.
CNN: Given the stakes, why shouldn't Facebook be regulated?
I actually am not sure we shouldn't be regulated.
He also finally apologized, in the Recode interview.
We let the community down and I feel really bad and I’m sorry about that.
In the New York Times interview (and he made a similar point on CNN), Zuckerberg painted the issues as hard to foresee.
If you had asked me, when I got started with Facebook, if one of the central things I’d need to work on now is preventing governments from interfering in each other’s elections, there’s no way I thought that’s what I’d be doing if we talked in 2004 in my dorm room.
Posted at: AXIOS
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In one of the most aggressive cover story treatments of the President-elect yet, the January 2017 issue of Harper’s depicts Donald Trump behind bars and features the cover lines: “Make America Great Again And Stop Trump Before He Starts.” |
From the Publisher:
In one of the most aggressive cover story treatments of the President-elect yet, the January 2017 issue of Harper’s depicts Donald Trump behind bars and features the cover lines: “Make America Great Again And Stop Trump Before He Starts.”
The digital edition is available today, but at least one hard copy was on display, peeking out of a Harper’s magazine bag, tucked underneath a Christmas tree with other presents in the lobby of Trump Tower.
The "present" was left under the tree by Harper's staffers at 2:29 p.m. Thursday.
"I'm awaiting word on how long it remained," confided a Harper's spokesperson, adding: "I asked them to set a timer."
Later, she confirmed that "it remained for about as long as it took to take the photo. But they left some on a table at Trump Grill."
Trump should take a look at what is happened to the French President Sarkozy of just one election away in France. No one here is saying, President Nicholas Sarkozy is guilty but he is facing charges and will have to answer those charges if his election campaign accepted money from an enemy of France, Putin...I mean Lybia's Gadafi, then.
I caught this on the Staten Herald while I waited at the bank and immediately it was Donald Trump's picture that came to mind. The alleged crimes are similar if the Special Prosecutor connects Putin to Trump which to an untrained eye unless there is hiding evidence to exonerate Trump, Otherwise was the connection of money not just to Trump's campaign but to his son in law Mr. jar
This would be a good show to watch like we have seen it in Italy and other countries but now is happening to a country which used to be the leader of the free world and always a beacon of freedom to so many facing hunger, sickness, and death, not of their own making.
This is a picture Trump has not seen and maybe is up to us to tweet it or somehow remind him that there are laws. Our system works with people of power by giving them lots of rope, so at the beginning, they are doing whatever they want with the rope but at the end, the rope tightens and a noose forms. Ask Nixon and others even though Trump will have the privilege to deliver to his voters the destruction of some of our institutions down. Justice is the first one he has attacked. Why? Dept of Justice with the FBI and Special Prosecutor are the ones that can come after him. Even his staff he has changed so there would be no chance the staff will ask Congress to appoint a replacement because the President can not exercise his powers without destroying us (as the Constitution allows). This is like windows being blown out on a flying jet and now is suffering decompression and anything not nailed down will fly out the windows to the abyss.
Adam Gonzalez for Adamfoxie blog
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