And we dont know what facebooks aims are in fact facebook doesnt know what its aims are because its going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news curators at facebook a bunch of us used to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject a story that we thought was really cool. The facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says hes committed to giving everyone a voice news from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative views out of its trending topics they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is actually trending among its 1000000000 users if this story
You can find more information in your program guide. Now, heres gordon chang. Good afternoon. If i could have your attention. We are going to get started. Im susanna sheltie president of defense Form Foundation is my great honor to welcome you to our congressional defense and Foreign Policy form. Please enjoy your lunch and help yourself to anything you might need during the program. I know you all are very busy so im especially appreciative of you taking the time to be here for this very timely program. For those of attending the form for the first time, the forms began in 1980s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan collegial atmosphere and as we promised, we have an expert speaker to address a critical topic. And very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media here so i would ask during the question answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of their limited time co
Expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics in a bipartisan collegial atmosphere to address a critical topic and very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media so i put asking thd during the question and answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of limited time restraints on their schedules. We are honored to have a prolific writer and fearless commentator and thinker to address what is happening in asia today especially for the citizens of hong kong and south korea. He is the author of losing south korea coming Nuclear Showdown and the coming collapse of china. Hes a columnist at the daily beast and his risings have been featured in numerous newspapers from the New York Times to the wall street journal and is a frequent commentator on fox news, pbs and bbc and many others as well as a regular cohost and guest on John Batchelor show. On the front lines in the battle for freedom, gordon. [applause] people
Strategy and a new hiring feature. First, our top story. More worries for wework. Pressure is mounting to oust ceo adam neumann after the delayed ipo. The board was supposed to meet today but they are likely going to meet later this week. Ellen huet covers startups and she joins me. Why the shakeup . Ellen insane week in the last week or two. Pressure first to delay the ipo and now it seems like there are reports to consider replacing the ceo, adam neumann. A lot of back and forth within the board. Maybe delay the ipo october and later. We seem to be watching as it unfolds. Possible Board Meeting this week, not expected today but likely very soon. Taylor who wants adam neumann out . Ellen that is most likely softbank. They hold two board seats. It seems like they also have support from benchmark. One board seat has been an early investor. Some viewers they remember was also instrumental in the ousting of Travis Kalanick from uber. It nevertheless remains, at least softbank and benchmar
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