Other, whose platform and has done more to protect the 2020 president ial election. Mark zuckerberg is going all in on the claim that facebooks moves have been historic. They have done more than any other country in history to make sure bad, fake information about this election is staying off of their platform. I will paraphrase something he said. They introduced new policies to combat Voter Suppression and misinformation and we worked with local Election Officials to remove hundreds of thousands of false claims about polling conditions. That he worried could have led to Voter Suppression. There is one thing so far in this hearing everyone agrees on, that is which posts stay up on these platforms, which come down and which get slapped with warning labels should definitely not be up to the u. S. Government. Take a listen. When it comes time to flag content as being reliable or not reliable do either one of you believe that the government should do that . I dont believe so. I think that
Im jon fortt. The dow is down. 5 with walgreens and boeing leading to the down side. The nasdaq still slightly in the green. Looking ahead to a huge week tech investors need to be watching cloud, software, devices, and fitness in cloud, the period beginning next week is a time of peak demand for amazon even more so this year. In software, retailers going to need targeting tools from Companies Like adobe to bring shoppers in and keep them loyal. Devices, pcs and con soles are going to keep us watching the likes of fit and in fitness in we cant hit the gym after all that pie, are we going to hit the peloton . Thats the question . Thats a good question. Or my personal favorite, a club row class. Its a good question, john particularly as the opportunity to go to a physical gym, that is diminishing as we see cases rise across the country and more restrictions or, you know, partial lockdowns. But as you lay out the themes, im thinking of some of the companies that have spent the last, you kn
Action in 2020. I am rebecca, director of George Washington university is a different data, democracy and politics. Im pleased to welcome you to our conference. Today, we have the opportunity too speak to a number of renowned experts, academics, journals, medical and Public Health professionals, as well as grass roots activists about how the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped digital communication, campaigning and activism and lead up to one of the most consequential elections in this nations history. We will discuss the challenges of Fact Checking political claims in real time. The targeting and impacts of disinformation on communities of color. Potential postelection violence being organized online, and much, much more. However, before we begin our first panel, i would like to invite you to watch a few remarks from George Washington universitys president. Sue met good morning. I am president of the George Washington university. I am pleased to welcome you to todays events. Posted by g
Good tuesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin with us dow because up 275 this morning. We lost some of that the covid19 vaccine rotation is continuing with tech down another 2 today and the s p 500 down 26 points thats where well begin this morning. The nasdaq falls investors rotating out of tech to some degree the managing director is going to help us start off the hour. Good morning, mark good to see you. The. Hey, carl, good to see you. We know i mean, the argument has been made that world changed a little bit yesterday for the better but is the tech reaction is there bath water being thrown out too . Well, yeah. The world did change id argue a lot yesterday. And not surprising that were seeing a rotation in some of the tech names i think for the next little while here, you know, expect the expected were going to think continue to see some rotation away from the work from home names probably bate probably a bit of a short term r
Hello. I am a columnist here at the Washington Post and i write about politics and i want to thank you for joining us this morning for our conversation with senator amy klobuchar. Senator klobuchar is a member of the Senate Commerce committee and on the subcommittee that deals with manufacturing. We are really testing our technical capabilities here because she is joining us from a car in wisconsin where she is traveling with her fellow senator, tammy baldwin, campaigning for Vice President joe biden in the most swingy of swing states this year. Sen. Klobuchar thank you so much. Great to be on. Ar im in the car and parked. The area i are in going to be doing an event at a farm. Im excited to be here today. There is nothing more important besides moving our country forward and focusing on jobs and the economy. And that includes in a big way, manufacturing. We are here today to talk about manufacturing but it feels like we have had 10 years worth of news in the last 10 days. How doto ask