With civil Rights Groups today to address the growing boycott the organizers of stop hate for profit calling the meeting a disappointment saying that Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg are not ready to address the hate on that platform and did not respond to demands of dozens of its largest advertisers the ncaa color of change, Antidefamation League and free press saying Mark Zuckerberg did not offer any tangible plans on how facebook will address the rampant discrimination and violent conspiracies on their platform the meeting that we just left was a disappointment facebook has had our demands in multiple ways and they showed up to the meeting expect an a for atte attending. Attending alone is not enough. Civil Rights Groups saying facebook did not address their list of demands, saying zuckerberg offered no automatic recourse for advertisers whose consent runs alongside hateful posts. They did not address why facebook recommends hateful groups and didnt address rampant disinformation
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Hong kong security law tomorrow. Starbucks, pepsico are the latest companies to curtail ad spending on facebook. Tossure on the group crack down on hate speech shows no signs of slowing. Manus 6 00 a. M. In london. 7 00 a. M. In paris, 9 00 a. M. In dubai. It is the best year for bonds ands 1995. Charts,ne in the unchained melody. I wont sing it for you. The fed was cutting rates and get this. I know you will choke on this. 6. 47 for 30 year bonds. I could have retired. 5. 79 . Ht money was good morning. Nejra good morning, manus. I love your trips down memory lane. It is extraordinary we have seen the best first half of the year since 1995. Look, there might be more in the lower orpush yields higher this week because we got fed chairman Jerome Powell speaking to congress along with secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin. Interesting is the disconnect because youve got bonds. To that extent, but also equities bid to such an extent so a different story being told in the equity and bond
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The subcommittee meeting will come to order. I want to thank everybody for coming. Ive got a fairly short statement that i will read and then i will turn to senator coons. Were obviously convening under different circumstances than our previous meeting. Were following the guidance of the cdc and the office of attending physician, so were spaced further apart. Our staff is reduced, but were grateful for all of them. The general public is watching online rather than filling up the room. So our hearing today will look a little different. I think we can all agree that the capitol feels a little different, the halls of congress feel a little different. Small businesses if theyre allowed to open at all are operating under very different circumstances. American homes have become classrooms and offices for millions of american families. And at least for a while American Life as we know it has changed. Nonetheless access or inaccess to Broadband Internet services especially in rural areas has b