Twitter shut down 32,000 accounts tied to china, russia and turkey for manipulating the platform. This after joe biden called out facebook for failing to curb misinformation and not taking a stand on political speech, oed i many who watch the by many who watch the social network. The company spends a lot of time outlining Community Standards they are supposed to enforce against all users, and when one particular user comes along who happens to send his posts from 1600 pennsylvania avenue, theres a different standard. In a lot of ways, facebook is too big to fix right now. Facebook has 2. 5 billion users around the world constantly posting in more than 100 languages. That is a system too big to govern. You have one young white man who has one experience in this life who has the control of billions of people, what they see and view. It is wrong. I dont know if he is drunk with power or simply just in a bubble. Us is someone else who has an opinion, roger an author. Ive got to get your te
And now heres cohen on growth and influence of Silicon Valley. Hello. Were going to get started here tonight my name is seth im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start, these are held three times semester six times year if you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over there put your name and email and only send news about our six events a year. We have pretty good ones, we had it earlier this year john last semester. These three we have some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights forum is being filmed by cspan so the question part of the tore rum, if you would go to one of the microphones and a also hopefully state your name and your question another reason we ask you to sate your name is because we then do a writeup of all of the forum afterwards, which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event. On our website, which is come forum. Edu and the last announcement is tha
1s in just a moment. Tomorrow this time maybe a whole different morning out there. Enjoy this wednesday, september 24, 2014 and Rosh Hashanah starts sundown today and happy new year to everyone celebrating. Laurenson following breaking news. Pregnant woman shot and killed her baby as we mentioned also died. Also steve keely back in Monroe County where police are being ing for a man that killed a state trooper. First, see, 6 01, weather on the 1s. We pick a number to help you figure out what it will be weatherwise today were going with 8, early sunshine, temperatures, clouds on the increase today and clouds all in all comfortable day off to a school tart once again. Like bus stop buddy you should have a jacket or sweatshirt, police on this morning. Some temperatures in the 40s and satellite and radar shows clouds around and this is storm were watching you saw it on radar before. A lot of rain in North Carolina and especially outer banks and now its starting to creep up into virginia and
Government is spinning its crime down on some of the austerity demands. A simple lifesaving idea becomes a reality. We report from cambodia on a new Global Health policy that will see syringes only used once. Also on the program, aaron joins us. Another day in the spotlight for the bank marred by allegations over tax avoidance allegations in its Swiss Banking unit ppt hsbc dropped by 17 , although still making more than 18 billion. And now were hearing its big boss has his own Swiss Bank Account where he keeps his bonus money. Stay tuned. Well find out what the chief executive officer had to say not about the birds, but about his own financial arrangements. Hello, everyone. Its noon here in london 7 00 a. M. In washington and 4 00 in the morning in los angeles. Where politics took center stage at the 87th academy awards. The two actresses who captured the main honors used their acceptance speeches to highlight equal opportunity. But civil rights immigration, mental illness, they were a
We will talk about the highs today coming up. Chris . Thank you. Crews are getting a handle on a three alarm fire. They just got it under control a few minutes ago. It was burn nothing the warehouse of 42nd avenue. Thats just north and here is a photo tweeted out about a half hour ago showing how intense the flames were. It shows the smoke coming from the building there and were told that theres no injuries. Ininvestigating a at aal crash. It happened before 3 00 on interstate 580 east on the off ramp. Police say a volvo crashed and ended up hitting a construction truck. The driver of the car was killed, but none of the construction workers were hurt. They believe the driver was traveling more than 100 miles an hour at the end of the crash. All lanes have reopened following a fatal crash on highway 101. It happened around 1 30 this morning on south bound 101 on the off ramp. Police say that a passenger was e jektded and the was unresponsive. Investigators are trying to determine what l