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Youre watching cspan2. Your unftered view of government. Created by americans Cable Television companies emma is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Acebook market zuckerberg and twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey testified about the president ial election helped erica manng misinformation online. From this in a jewish inhe judiciary committee. This is four hours. Good morning everybody. I think weave senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct. And is it okay if we moveha forward. Absolutely and thank you very much. I will make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorshipuppression in the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when i facebook. Witter and about the platforms and the decisions they make and how they make them. Can we do better. Do we need to do better. So the first thing that i want to talk about here is health risket associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 75013 17 yearolds found that 45 percent online almos
Anticipated ipos cnbc confirms that doordash and airbnb is expected to release the valuations in the upcoming s1 amendments and particularly door dash seems to be employing a technique that weve seen before from epic in doing this ipo pricing process and also getting quite bate of interest because of the pandemic right with so many more options like a three main options on the table now to go public, its interesting that door dash is forging its own way, elements of the traditional ipo with an auction process. Carl and jon, what is interesting about these two ipos, they were talking about this earlier, i heard leslie say something, benefitting in different ways from the pandemic also the strategy. They went to local smaller markets, particularly doordash going to the suburbs but, carl, you see airbnb, there were not many options to go to hotels or get great lodging in the smaller places thats all people want to do now. The they want to avoid the big cities and go, you know, outside of
This book the anatomy of blackness, sites of slavery in the age of the leather. And then came last year the much diderot and the art of thinking freely which is now in paperback and im holding it up. Its a beautiful cover. Andrew, how did you go from, im curious about the through lines of the three books. How did it start with the first book which is about an intellectual history of monstrosity in literature and ideas which have a lot to do with bitter row, to what the enlightenment figures thought about race and onto the third book diderot and the art of thinking freely . First, thanks, jim pick a truly great to be here today. I have always been attracted to which my call intellectual history, tracked down an idea over time, both of the affects people and the people are affected by the idea. So very quickly about this first book, how to monstrosity was incredibly important for people of the 17th and 18th century because it was this hotly contested topic. Was god responsible for human