- What's up you beautiful bastards?
Hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday.
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show,
and a quick note before we get started.
One, I actually uploaded two videos today.
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It's not a news thing.
If you're here for just the news, just watch this video.
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But with that said, let's just jump into it.
And the first thing we're gonna talk
about today is this situation and controversy
surrounding celebrity photographer Marcus Hyde.
Now most of you out there probably
don't know much about Hyde himself,
but you definitely know people that he's worked with.
He has shot with the likes
of Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande.
He's a big name in the photography industry.
Right now he's making headlines
after several models have accused him
of predatory behavior and sexual assault,
and this all started when one model,
Sunnaya Nash posted screenshots of her DMs with him online.
It appears that they were messaging
about potentially doing a free photo shoot,
and in those we can see he asks for nude photos,
to which she replies, I don't have nude photos.
I'm comfortable shooting in lingerie and partial nudity.
He responds, it's 2K then.
She replies, LOL, but nude is free?
To which he tells her, yes.
She then says she will shoot nudes,
but won't send him photos,
and he maintains that if that is the case,
it will still cost $2,000,
and adding, gotta see if you're worth it.
Also telling her she can find someone else to shoot with,
and when Nash says, quote, "Yeah you wack",
he tells her he can just keep shooting celebrities.
After that she then shows him
that she posted their messages to her IG story,
which he responds by telling her
to quote, "Suck a fat big dick."
Now following all of this, Instagram removed her story
with a screenshot saying that it violated
community guidelines, and could
even result in her account being removed,
but still once on the internet, forever on the internet.
So the screenshots spread,
also the screenshots remain on her Twitter account
where she used the hashtag CancelMarcusHyde.
Also notably the screenshots
were reposted to a popular fashion Instagram
called diet_prada who called Hyde gross,
and also called on Ariana and Kim to speak out against him,
and this story ended up blowing up more,
and more with models coming out,
sharing their stories, claiming
that Hyde behaved inappropriately with them.
On Monday we saw Nash post a thread on Twitter
with several accusations coming from women
who DMed her about their experiences.
In one a girl says during a shoot he stuck his fingers
in her mouth which made her uncomfortable.
That claim goes on that after the shoot
he took her to a bar, he got her shots.
He then took her to her apartment
where she went to the bathroom to throw up.
She says that she was hoping he would leave,
and adds, finally he came in to check on me,
and I wouldn't even open the door.
I felt terrified.
I just yelled at him to leave through the door.
I also left some of my wardrobe in his car,
and he wouldn't give it back to me
unless I would go on a date with him.
Never saw him or my clothes again.
Another said that he sexually assaulted her
before he became popular.
Another writing that she met Hyde when she was 18,
saying when he asked if she would be okay
with mild nudity she said yes,
because she was afraid he wouldn't do the shoot otherwise,
and writing quote, " When I got to his place,
he immediately started pouring shots for us to drink."
"One after another"
"Eventually he told me to get into lingerie,
and we would start shooting."
"This was after I had waaaay too much to drink."
He began shooting me,
and then wanted to get some POV shots."
"Him covering my nipples with his hands,
him shooting my ass with his hand on it."
"He stuck a finger in my vagina,
and I told him to stop
and that I was uncomfortable with it."
Then continuing, "He told me I was being vain,
and poured me another shot."
"Next thing I know, I'm behind wasted."
"We shot some more, he tried to finger me again,
and I was too drunk to say stop."
"He had sex with me and photographed the entire thing."
She says she ends up leaving
because she was scared and uncomfortable,
adding a couple days later he asked if we could get dinner,
and adding, "When I refused,
he asked if I wanted to receive the pictures he took of me."
"I said yes, and he said he would only give them
to me if I went over to his place again."
And you also had Nash sharing several other screenshots
of girls who said Hyde had asked them for nudes,
gotten them drunk, or touched them during shoots.
Later that night, Ariana Grande posted
to her Instagram story addressing the incident,
though she didn't call out Hyde by name,
writing, "I have just read some shocking
and really heartbreaking stories."
"I hate that this is a conversation,
but please do not shoot with photographers
who make you uncomfortable or make you feel like you need
to take your clothing off if you don't want to."
"If you want to, sick,
but if you don't want to, please don't."
"If they tell you you have to pay more money
if you're clothed that's fucked
and I'm sorry that has happened to you."
"I promise there are so many respectful,
nice, talented photographers out there."
And also encouraging models to look out for one another,
and to keep each other connected
to photographers with good reputation.
We also saw Kim Kardashian respond to the news,
though once again she did not refer to Hyde by name,
writing, "I have been reading all
of the messages and stories
from women regarding inappropriate behavior
of a photographer that I have worked with in the past."
Adding, "My own experiences have always been professional,
and I am deeply shocked, saddened
and disappointed to learn that
other women have had very different experiences."
In closing, "I stand in full support
of every woman's right to not be harassed,
asked or pressured to do anything
they are not comfortable with."
"We can not allow this type of behavior
to go unnoticed and I applaud those who speak out."
Following all of this we saw Nash
once again take to Instagram saying,
"the real credit deserves to be given
to the girls who were brave enough
to come forward and share their stories with me."
"Additionally, I've received some
consistent information about a few other
male photographers that have acted
inappropriately and I am sorting out
how to bring that to attention as well."
But also closing, " I also want to make a point clear."
"Marcus Hyde did not assault ME personally,
but the screenshots I posted of our messages led others
to come forward that he DID sexually assault them."
Now as far as Marcus Hyde's response to all of this,
he has so far not said anything.
He has also turned his Instagram private,
and it's unclear what he is going to do from here.
And as Nash seemed to reference,
although disconnected from her,
It does appear that women speaking out
about photographers is spreading,
because for example, now we're seeing diet_prada
and a model named Haley Bowman calling out
predatory behavior by Timur Emek
who has notably shot for Victoria's Secret.
Specifically there are allegations
that he has touched women during shoots.
Regarding that he has deleted his account,
but ultimately that is where we are right now.
It'll be interesting to see how Hyde responds,
or if he responds.
Also will he see more accusations with this specific story
or regarding other photographers.
For now we have to wait and of course
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And then let's talk about Facebook.
They're an awesome website,
and nothing sketchy has ever happened there.
(trumpet music)
I'm obviously joking.
The reason we're talking about Facebook
is this morning the U.S. Federal Trade Commission,
the FTC announced that they
were fining Facebook a record breaking
five billion dollars for privacy violations,
and in addition to that, they're also instituting
sweeping privacy restrictions and oversight measures.
Now this is a huge deal, right,
because this is the largest fine
that the FTC has ever imposed on a tech company by far.
And according to the FTC's announcement,
the fine is quote, "the largest ever imposed
on any company for violating consumers' privacy
and almost 20 times greater than the largest privacy
or data security penalty ever imposed worldwide."
With it also being one of the largest penalties ever
assessed by the U.S. Government for any violation.
And the FTC's announcement isn't coming out of nowhere.
It's coming after a year long investigation
of Facebook for privacy violations.
That as you might remember started right
after the New York Times and The Observer
of London reported that Facebook allowed
British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica
to harvest the data of millions
of Facebook users without their knowledge.
Also building voter profiles
from those user's data without their consent,
and specifically here Cambridge Analytica got
that data from Facebook users who use the
third party app called This Is Your Digital Life.
And one of the most massive things
there was although it's been estimated
that only around 270,000 people use the app,
the users who gave the app permission to access
and acquire their data also gave the app permission
to access some of the data of all of their Facebook friends.
Right now I think we can all agree, not a great thing.
But if your friend Becky or Glen,
you know equal opportunity,
they sign up for a big (beep) in their mouth,
it shouldn't mean that all their friends
also get signed up for that same (beep),
and unfortunately in this situation,
it resulted in 87 million (beep) in the mouth,
or to break from this reference,
it resulted in the personal information
of nearly 87 million Facebook users
being collected by Cambridge Analtica.
Right, so this despite the vast majority
of those people never giving the firm permission
to access their information or even playing the game.
Also along with investigating Cambridge Analytica,
the FTC's investigation also expanded
to look at other privacy concerns,
things like Facebook's data sharing policies
with other third party apps and device makers
that Facebook users might not
have been aware of or understood,
and all of that culminated in the report
an announcement released today by the FTC.
And so let's take a look at what they found
and what it means for Facebook.
The FTC's official announcement starts out
by saying that in addition to the five billion dollar fine,
Facebook will also quote, "submit to new restrictions
and a modified corporate structure
that will hold the company accountable
for the decisions it makes about it's users' privacy,
to settle Federal Trade Commission charges
that the company violated a 2012 FTC order
by deceiving users about their ability
to control the privacy of their personal information."
With the FTC going on to describe the 2012 order
which quote, "prohibited Facebook
from making misrepresentations about the privacy
or security of consumers' personal information,
and the extent to which it shares personal information",
and quote, "required Facebook
to maintain a reasonable privacy program
that safeguards the privacy
and confidentiality of user information."
The FTC then continued to outline
how Facebook violated the 2012 order,
and there are a lot of claims here,
so we're gonna kinda just hit the main ones.
In 2012 Facebook put a disclosure
on their privacy settings page telling users
the information they shared with their friends could
also be shared with the third party apps their friends used,
and here the FTC claims that just four months later
Facebook removed the disclosure
even though they were still sharing that data.
Then in 2014 Facebook announced
that they would stop letting third party developers
collect data about the friends of app users,
but here the FTC says that Facebook separately
told the developers that they could continue
to access the data until April 2015,
and even then Facebook still waited quote,
"until at least June 2018 to stop sharing user information
with third-party apps used by their Facebook friends."
The statement then goes on to say that the FTC alleges
that Facebook did not screen the developers
or their apps before granting them access
to vast amounts of user data.
Facebook claimed it had consequences
for policy violations by third parties,
but Facebook did not enforce such policies consistently,
and often based enforcement of it's policies
on whether Facebook benefited financially
from it's arrangements with the developer.
Now, with all of that said, let's take a look
at some of the new restrictions
and oversight managers that Facebook will have
to comply with under the settlement.
First up we have accountability measures
to ensure accountability with Facebook's
board of directors level.
The order will create an independent privacy committee
of Facebook's board of directors.
In order to remove quote, "unfettered control
by Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg
over decisions affecting user privacy",
the settlement also requires the company
to designate compliance officers who will be
responsible for Facebook's privacy program,
and it gives a third party assessor more power
to evaluate Facebook's privacy program.
Also let's talk restrictions this settlement imposes.
Facebook will now have to conduct privacy reviews
on any new or modified products and services
before they can be implemented.
It will also be required to document
any data breach involving 500 or more users.
The FTC then goes on to include
a laundry list of new requirements.
Notably it requires Facebook to establish, implement,
and maintain a comprehensive data security program.
Also a massively important note here is that this
also applies to Facebook owned companies,
so WhatsApp and Instagram are included.
But ultimately, that is where we are right now,
and it's gonna be interesting to see
how this impacts the landscape,
and I say that because some experts believe
that this could signal a much larger crackdown
on tech companies and privacy violations,
but also we have others arguing, well not really.
All right, if you're as cynical as me,
you could easily argue that this is kind
of just a business expense to some companies.
Play fast, lose, you're makin' a lotta money.
I mean ultimately five billion dollars is just
an unthinkable amount of money, but it's also,
for Facebook kind of a drop in the bucket.
Maybe not a drop, maybe a squirt.
They're getting hit with a five billion dollar fine,
but they brought in 55.8 billion dollars
in revenue just last year alone.
And you have some pointing out that the settlement
actually doesn't do anything to change
or restrict Facebook's ability to collect
and share their users' personal information,
which is also why some critics in this situation
are calling for the Facebook executives
to be held personally accountable.
But ultimately, that is where we are.
This is also not the end for Facebook,
and I mean that in regards to legal battles.
There are similar investigations and suits in Europe.
Also notably the SEC, the Securities
and Exchange Commission announced today that they
had imposed a 100 million dollar fine against Facebook.
That's where we are, and regarding the story,
I kinda have two questions.
One, what do you think about this five billion dollar fine?
Do you think it's just a slap on the wrist,
the price of doing business the Facebook way,
or something meaningful,
or hey, maybe you're even against the fine.
And also two, when it comes to privacy,
do you think that most people care?
All right, and you can answer
this question for what you personally feel
for yourself and then other people.
And I say that because there's this debate
out there right now that there are a lot of people
that say they care about privacy, but most don't actually.
I think as long as someone's credit card information
isn't getting stolen, or their nudes are getting leaked,
or something that embarrasses them
in some way that the general public
is just kind of understood,
well if I'm using services for free,
I'm the product and so the data is part of the deal,
or no, do you think the public genuinely does care.
And once again, even that part
is kind of a two pronged question,
the general public, and also you.
Yeah, I'd love to know your thoughts on that.
Then in U.S. politics, well one,
I know that everyone's talking
about former special council Robert Mueller.
He's testifying in two back to back hearings today.
The second of the two is still ongoing
as I'm finishing up this video,
so I can't really dive deep into that.
To oversimplify the situation,
it appears that the republicans on the committee
in general have been just trying to muddy Mueller's name,
muddy Mueller's team, their methods, their findings,
are trying to expose what they perceive as bias or failures,
and as far as the democrats, it was
about framing Mueller as a patriot,
a veteran, someone dedicated to this country.
And since Mueller's said that he would not be reading
from the report there where I think democrats
were really hoping to get those sound bites from him,
there was a lot of getting him to confirm
and deny things verbally that were in this report
that may have been overlooked or mischaracterized,
or in general just lied about by some.
Right, and there was even an example
of that very early on in the first hearing.
You know, just about a half an hour
before the first hearing you had Trump tweeting
once again, no collusion, no obstruction.
He and his administration have repeated this line
over and over saying that he was
totally exonerated by Mueller's report.
Seemingly regarding that claim we saw this back
and forth between Nadler and Mueller.
- So the report did not conclude
that he did not commit obstruction of justice?
Is that correct?
- That is correct.
- And what about total exoneration?
Did you actually totally exonerate the president?
- No.
- Now in fact your report's expressly states
that it does not exonerate the president?
- It does.
- And your investigation actually found quote,
"multiple acts by the president
that were capable of exerting undue influence
over law enforcement investigations including
the Russian interference and obstruction of investigations."
Is that correct?
- Correct.
- But like I said, it's still ongoing.
From a strategic standpoint,
I understand why what's happening is happening.
If you actually go through the Mueller report,
it does not paint a pretty picture around Trump,
which I will say, for awhile I was just kind of
in awe that Trump has been able to push both narratives,
that both the Mueller report totally exonerated hime,
and also it was a rigged witch hunt
by a band of angry democrats.
Hey, ultimately, like I said, it's still ongoing.
That said, the Trump administration
was in the news getting a win today.
This is specifically around
a major immigration policy change.
It's a policy that recently took effect and quote,
"it is to deny asylum to anyone
who shows up on the Mexican border
after traveling through another country."
Right, so it's a move that's expected
to mainly effect Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Salvadorans.
This change was immediately met with lawsuits,
but the news today is reportedly
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly
denied a request for a temporary restraining order,
saying the immigrant advocate groups
behind the suit did not show that their work
would be irreparably harmed if the policy moved forward.
District Judge Kelly was actually appointed
by Donald Trump is saying that the Trump administration
can enforce this new policy while the lawsuits play out.
But then finally, hey,
some U.S. political news that is not divisive.
Yesterday the U.S. Senate in a 97 to two vote voted
to extend the 9/11 victims and first responders fund.
And if you're not familiar, that's a fund
that pays out claims for deaths
and illnesses related to the 9/11 attacks.
9/11 first responders were at risk of losing
their coverage for the claims in December of 2020,
but hey, it passed here 97 to 2.
This after it passed through the House
in a vote of 402 to 12.
As far as the two who voted no in the Senate,
you had Mike Lee of Utah, and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
As far as why Rand Paul voted no, he tweeted,
"While I support our heroic first responders,
I can't in good conscience vote for legislation
which to my dismay remains unfunded."
"We have a nearly trillion dollar deficit
and $22 trillion in debt."
"Spending is out of control."
But regarding that, John Stewart who of course,
yes, is a comedian, but also is one
of the main faces that championed this bill,
he criticized Rand Paul's reasoning
here saying that Paul raised the same objection
to the tax cut, but he voted for that.
But hey, the main good point here
is the bill did pass the House and the Senate.
The country can with this support
and help the first responders who supported and helped
on 9/11, the survivors of 9/11, and their families.
And that's where we're going to end today's show.
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