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Published. Meantime, facebook is making a big change to its ad business, announcing it will allow people to opt out of seeing political ads on facebook and instagram. Users will be able to mute electoral ads and ads on social issues as well. For more, i want to bring in purses and strategies founding partner, who was before that president obamas Reelection Campaign digital director. Teddy, good to have you back on the show. Facebook may the controversial decision to not factcheck political ads, not factcheck speech from politicians. What is your take on this now middle ground, saying you can turn off political ads if you dont want to see them . Teddy thanks for having me. I think the truth is it is not much of a middle ground. What its doing is putting the onus on the user to do the work. They are saying we wont provide any Fact Checking or any standards whatsoever on our platform, but you the user can click on a few buttons and hopped out if you make that decision. The thing i think t
Protesting facebooks failure to address the vast proliferation of hate on its platform. Facebook responding saying it will change policies to prohibit hate speech. The fallout was felt far and wide across the tech sector. What is the impact, guy . These are hand full of companies but has the levee broken a little led zeppelin way to go with the zep reference right at the top the day trade, now its a lot bigger than that and i absolutely think its a big deal facebook is so far behind the curve. They are zigging when they need to be zagging. They need an emergency meeting because as we said three nights a ago, those Companies Might be the first and now last hershey, prok tits showing a l things going on. Facebook acted as a monopoly for a long time. They never had a focus on these things now when they have to focus on it, they are sort of dammed if they do and dammed if they dont. Advertisers had to accept whatever it was facebook put out there. I really commend verizon, hersheys coming
Companies keep pulling ads from the social network. Starbucks and pepsico among the players. Charlie has a big scoop on the facebook story. As the coronavirus death toll surpasses another tragic milestone, and cases spike in some regions, the search for the cure presses on. Jacob glanville is star of pandemic and is here to tell us how his treatment is curing cancer and if human trials are around the corner. Plus a new front in the electric vehicle cars. Nikola motors taking orders for its Tesla Cybertruck competitor, the badger. The executive chairman is here to tell us how orders on day one are faring. Less than an hour to the closing bell. Im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman today. Lets start the claman countdown. Cheryl we begin with some breaking news this hour. Amc theaters is going to begin reopening its u. S. Theaters on july 30th in line with Disneys Mulan and Warner Brothers tenet. They originally said u. S. Theater operations would resume on july 15th. Little bit of pushback.
The Senate Environment and public works Works Committee held a hearing on how infrastructure legislation can help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Senators and panelists discuss the best way to fund road and bridge projects. Good morning. I called his hearing to order. Before i discussed todays hearing i want to say a few words about what is happening in communities across the country today. This is a time of great pain and unrest for our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary. They listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Some of the peaceful protests were hijacked by filing criminal, distraction, looting and arson stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause and the Peaceful Pro