Im not running a false promise and being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch. But what i can promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions. We will deal honestly with the american people. Biden and his wife jill cast their ballots in wilmington today. Meanwhile, democrat, democratic Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris held two drive in rallies in arizona. She criticized President Trump for putting the health of his supporters at risk by packing them together. Stocks tumble today because of worries that the pandemic in the u. S. And in europe will mean more restrictions on businesses and drag down the economy. The dow dropped 943 points, the nasdaq lost 426 and the s p was down 119. Early voting numbers continue to break records nationwide and if the trends hold, we could see historic levels of turnout. Our political reporter greg lee tells us whats driving the numbers. Reporter with less than one week until
Amendment rights until there is no freedom at all. They will put the Great Republic on the trashy but history if they have their way if our government does not act and act immediately. Facebook and twitter this week censoring the New York Post bombshell reports linking joe biden to his son Hunter Bidens corrupt business dealings in ukraine and china. Facebook censored the stories, twitter censored the stories, facebook saying they needed to be fact checked and twitter called the stories potentially harmful. Whatever in the world that means. Within minutes, both social media platforms had put in and to the free flow of information in this country, the free flow of information that underpins our very democracy, they blocked millions of their users including myself to simply slow down the distribution of the New York Post exposes of the bidens. Twitter said their decision to censor the New York Post links fell under what they call the hack material policy, it is a policy to twitter ceo ja
Talks about social Media Companies approach to misinformation on their platforms. At 945 a. M. , virginia senator tim kaine host this is the washington journal for october the 20th. Pennsylvania,p in Vice President pence planned a stop in cincinnati, ohio. Two recent polls suggest when asked about the impact of social media and political discourse, most people responded it had a negative effect. What about you . What do you think of social medias impact on the way we get information about politics and how we talk about politics . You can let us know on the lines this morning. 2027488000 hooves 2027488001 who support President Trump and mike pence, 2027488000 for joe biden and Kamala Harris. 2027488002 if you are undecided or support another candidate. If you text us, you can do so at 2027488003. Our Facebook Pages facebook. Com cspan. Those polls, one of them comes talks about social medias impact. Heres a result of the survey saying by Political Party, there slight while 83 to republi
Tech reporter for axios. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate your time. Guest thank you. Host one of the interesting aspect is the last couple of stories concerning the New York Post, and the responses from certain platforms. Remind viewers what happened with the story end with the platforms. Post the new york put a story with allegations about joe bidens son hunter and supposedly was that joe biden did for hunter in ukraine. The story was obtained because of a laptop that they obtained emails in, provided by rudy giuliani, the president s personal lawyer. Twitter and facebook worked to limit the distribution of this article on their platforms because the materials they have, which had to do with hacked materials, obtained by hacking. It was a swift backlash from many conservatives on the hill and in the administration. Twitter ended up backtracking and allowing the post to be shared after all after some really strong backlash. It was a prime example of how these companies attempt to
This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of the internet are under attack, soon we will hear from the ceos of three of the most prominent internet platforms, facebook, google and twitter, with this is include mr. Jack dorsey of twitter, of alphabet inc. And mr. Marx a burger facebook. On october 1 this committee voted on a bipartisan and unanimous basis to approve the issuance of subpoenas after discussions among representatives of the companies witnesses agreed to attend it voluntarily and remotely the stronger agreement on both sides of the aisle t