Published. Meantime, facebook is making a big change to its ad business, announcing it will allow people to opt out of seeing political ads on facebook and instagram. Users will be able to mute electoral ads and ads on social issues as well. For more, i want to bring in purses and strategies founding partner, who was before that president obamas Reelection Campaign digital director. Teddy, good to have you back on the show. Facebook may the controversial decision to not factcheck political ads, not factcheck speech from politicians. What is your take on this now middle ground, saying you can turn off political ads if you dont want to see them . Teddy thanks for having me. I think the truth is it is not much of a middle ground. What its doing is putting the onus on the user to do the work. They are saying we wont provide any Fact Checking or any standards whatsoever on our platform, but you the user can click on a few buttons and hopped out if you make that decision. The thing i think t
Investors move out of tech into the cyclicals. On the day, there was a sharp leg lower because around 11 00, stocks up. 2 , now down. That came on the news the florida covid19 cases rose 2. 4 yesterday relative to the previous seven day average of 1. 6 . The fear everybody has around the idea that will these protests and a reopening in the United States because despite or second wave, perhaps improving i think their cases were little bit above yesterday. You can see the reaction in stocks at this point. David one day does not make a trend make, at the same time we are all on tenterhooks to find out what happens in the states that opened up earlier than others. Airlines, we have airlines bursting back, saying maybe air travel is coming back. Abigail American Airlines very positive and that is helping the dow transport traits to the positive. American airlines boosting their flights in the air. Many saying millennials are willing to get back into the air. That could help a beatendown are
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