Minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the big social media platform in response to the disinformation campaigns around the covid19 pandemic, very serious situation where lives are literally in the balance. Im the director of the George Washington University School of Public Affairs affiliated with the institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media plat
Mask up and make good choices. These are the 19 counties impacted by the governors order today, affecting about 70 of the states population. The bay area counties on the list are could notra costa, santa clara and solano. Not all of them have opened the types of business thats newsom is concerned about. This would put on hold any planning for reopening the businesses and taking a look at the numbers that led to this decision. You can see the positivity rate, the percentage of tests coming back positive for coronavirus, has jumped to 6 over the last 14 days and 6. 4 over the last seven days. Compare that to two weeks ago when it was just 4. For y4 . A big change. Melanie joins us live. These new rules apply to the 19 counties that have been on the states watch list for the last three consecutive days. As californians head into the holiday weekend, indoor activities in 19 california counties including could notra costa, santa clara and solano counties will cease immediately. Please do no
The effect. The woman who shot video of the rope and posted it and her concerns on social media. I saw something swinging it caught my eye. It caught me off guard. Is this man told us the rope is part of a rigging used by him and his friends as a larger swing system and shared this video in action. Out of the dozens and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks use it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park. That we tried to create. He told us this small piece of rope in a tree is part of the same system. Still, for many people the image of anything that looks like a noose stirs up intense emotion. Even if it was supposed to be exercise rope. It is making us all unsafe. Its unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanted to create a good time, got misinterpreted into something heinous. Oakland police are investigating and assigned extra patrol to the lake. Adding we understand the historic and harmful
Backtracking on reopening plans. Wednesday, july 1. This is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome to july, if you will hard to believe but it is already july 1 time flies it feels like about 100 years. First day of the month, quarter, second half of the year. Dow futures are not giving us many direction the markets are about to give us the best three months in decades and cap off a fourmonth win streak if you are looking for historical comparisons, here is how history shapes out the dow with the best quarterly performance. Nasdaq best quarterly gains. A look at the small caps they dont want to be left behind russell 2000 up 5 best quarterly gain since First Quarter of 1991. Apple soars higher apache led higher by 200 . Congrats to elon musk, tesla leading the nasdaq 100 it more than doubled in three months despite plenty of tesla stock skeptics it crossed over the 2 billion market cape for a bit yesterday. Let us make sure this is all coming in context. The dow coming of
1. 1 but underneath, it was insane after a big dip at the opening, the market came roaring back into the black. This was a day when both the recession stocks and the recovery stocks worked long term thats just knot sustainable. Sooner or later, someone, one of these two groups has to be wrong but short term as were taught, anything goes. Let me break this one down for you. This market has two big themes, completely contradictory and a third team thats down right apocalypse first, the american awakens train. The people who buy into this thesis, well, they believe the government made a terrible mistake locking down the economy. Im part of that group we wont make that mistake again. Now that the country is reopening, they expect people to go out and spend and return to work as they see it for all intensive purposes, the pandemic is behind us the worst is over. We have a better understanding how to treat covid and in the fall it wont be on the radar screen despite records in florida and te