The nasdaq is tracking for its longest winning streak since december bob . Good news, were just off the highs for the day. The bad news is financials are again not participating in the rally and they need to to really move us forward. Lets take a look at the sectors, as you heard from kelly, it largely tech, semiconductors, internet stocks, the whole technical sector is doing well, Consumer Discretionary tech oriented to an extent, industrials flatter, generally underperforming and banks not even in positive territory by and large we told but the new high on the mega caps. I dont know if you realize how theyve rallied off of the march lows facebook is up nearly 78 , apple 75, amazon 70, microsoft and alphabet, even alphabet is lagging, 46 off of the lows, far outperforming the overall Market Software in general has become really important so if you look at right around here we see new highs in adobe and electronic arts, auto desk, service now, which is the Cloud Computing company. That
Playing out on the front lines of healthcare, and how those harms can drive the decisions and the policies Going Forward that can affect other platforms are held accountable and how they behave. So lets start with a short video if we can. To illustrate the damaging impact that disinformation can have on healthcare professional professionals, on consumers who turn to social media for information, about covid19 generally and about how to protect themselves. Take a look. I have had colleagues that shared with me tragic cases of intentional bleach that were aimed at preventing or curing covid19 by patients who had been misled by social media. That is how the disinformation has spread in our communities. All the disinformation is putting my patient at risk in the sense if people come in that it had symptoms and they havent gone to see a physician because the decided the virus isnt ist real. They were told its just like the flu. By the time they came to the hospital, one of them died on the
executive order on social Media Companies. This is three hours and 25 minutes. [background sounds]. Good morning and welcome today hearing on the other side of the federal communications commission. And we have them here today. As a special welcome to our distinguished and all witnesses upon. Today we will hear from fcc chairman. In the commissioner and other commissioners. The fcc is the nations primary regulator and later state International Communications network. The core part of the agencys vision is to ensure that all people in the United States have access to rapid efficient and nationwide Communication Services at reasonable prices. Never before has the fccs responsibility to achieve this mission been more important. In the covid19 Public Health emergency experts a spotlight the Nations Communications networks in the American Peoples access to Broadband Services. Since march there has been a dramatic and sustained surge and internet usage. But the u. S. Network has performed we
You should be worried about it. You probably are worried about it. We were wrong. Rest easy, america. Weve got happy news for you tonight. Good tidings from our friends in the Academic Research community. On monday a pair of researchers from New York University in New York City released what they described as a study of social media and censorship and they didnt hide Area Conclusions in the footnote. They got to it in the title. This new paper is called false accusation, the unfounded claim that social Media Companies censor conservatives. Quite a literal study. It turns out what weve been telling you for years isnt true. Its merely an unfounded claim. No truth to it. Its all there in the paper. We read it. On page 16 we learned, yes, conservatives frequently point to twitters practice of suspending or permanently banning account holders as evidence of bias against the right. Thats true. They never stop winding. Happily the study concludes, however, facts dont support this claim. Conse
The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern