Facebook controversy: "These services have unfathomable control over everything we do"
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Channel: FRANCE 24 English · 2018 · News & Politics
Subscribe to France 24 now: http://f24.my/youtubeEN FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 http://f24.my/YTliveEN Facebook's top brass has finally admitted that it did hire a right-wing public relations firm to investigate billionaire philanthropist, George Soros. This comes in the wake of a New York Times exposé which revealed that it did hire Definers, the group to counter the fallout of the social network's use by russian operatives and data-mining Cambridge Analytica, ahead of the 2016 Presidential election. The outgoing head of communications has taken responsability for hiring the firm which used black-ops style techniques. Visit our website: http://www.france24.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://f24.my/youtubeEN Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/France24_en
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