O the computer histy museum i hope everyone is well and fe but the pandemic we are close but the dital doors are wide open im pleased to welcome you today featuring the director of mit initiative on the Digital Economy and conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist markoff. And those with the generosity under these unprecedented times we need your hp more than ever to sustain museum to dever on our mission for technology for everyone. In the future impact on humanit humanitys please continue to join and giv now to iroduce mr. Hancock to introduce todays program and speakers. I am delighted you can join todays program. And deeply influenced by social media conctions sometimes a love hate relationship and the power for od. And directorf mit initiative with Technology Writer for questions such as e aftermath of the us election and interference in 2016 and 20 what steps can we take a look at social Media Companies do on the platform without cial and with these actions we can take
Rebound we had off of the lows and how magnificent it was. You have to put that in context with how fast we sunk into a bear market. That bear market drill down we 500, s p p p 500, that was the quickest drawdown we had on record here to see a bounce like this i guess is not completely out of the realm of expectations given how far and how quickly we fell. Taylor we were member that day clearly. It was march 23. Just at the pace and rate at which you talked about the fall and the rebound. In the middle of this, we talk about a 50 rebound. You are still giving incredible superlatives when you talk about it really has been a risk on. It is Consumer Discretionary materials, tech, they are up 60 since the lows on march. Really interesting that even though the fed has been so involved, the rate sensitive sectors have not been the all performers. Romaine i would like to get amys perspective on the rates market. Treasuries have been the lowflow shower of Financial Markets for the last few mon
Alley were seeing more push and pull this morning in this case the dow and the s p are green. Were getting decent bounces in names related to travel. Of course the covid cases out of florida at 11,000 plus is not good, but it has been off set by the data out of gilead lets talk about where were going in the coming weeks. You have been riding names like facebook and alphabet and is any of that betting tired the nasdaq 100 has bet the s p for ten straight months. At this point i think the s p this year is down 1 and the value index was down we started our careers at the same time. We saw the tech bubble we saw how bifurcated it can get. We saw how they still have value. Other companies doing exceptionally well it is not available compared to what we see in other sectors what is an example of that . Lets take leer if your family owned the business, you would say we made a billion and a half dollars a couple years ago and a few years from now we will again, but the market is offering to bu
Want to looking all to city lights. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs book. He is a a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. Hes an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for competition all Propaganda Research of the center for media engagement of university of texas at austin. Dr. Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also cofounded and directed the Research Team at computational propaganda project at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology or a variety of publications. These include wired, the atlantic
To City Lights Book publishers. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us celebrating a very important book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Samuel woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media, assistant professor of the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Samuel woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute of the future, 50yearold think tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley and cofounded and directed the Research Team at the computational propaganda project at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology for a variety of publications including wired, the atlantic monthly, tech crunch, the guardia