People to roam and be generalist and go wherever they find interesting stories and something i found interesting at the time was what the internet was doing there was as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political in my mind at that time but it was what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know its true or important versus irrelevant and out to spend her time so i was looking at this as a tech story and business story and i was looking at quick bait forms and how they get you to click on things and wister died and money from that and then in the middle of 2015 they was a big bronze conference at trump tower and tromping down the escalator and suddenly these forces have been looking at about how informational architecture online is treated as is a political story as well. From then it was off to the races. Host you generally grouped your book into two groups of people, if i understand it correctly. You have a group called t
Joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker and the author of the book, easy social online extremist in the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having. The book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker, can you excite network and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its a magazine that allows people to roam and be generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories and something that i was finding interesting at the time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political, and my mind at that time, it was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know what is true or important versus irrelevant or how to spend their time and so i was looking at this as a tech story and a business story and i was looking
Value your old life you will not threaten the lives of our people. This morning President Trump addressed the nation announcing new economic sanctions against iran this after the country launched more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles at 2 military bases in iraq, housing us military and Coalition Forces it happened last night the president also noted that United States is not looking to escalate the situation any further and wants to embrace peace political analyst tom double karl joins us now in the studio so. Tom does this mean that this back and forth with the attacks is over. Well actually i think it has peaked 3 important things the shots that iran took word at secondary basis, not direct american someone. Number 2. They their foreign minister said that this was a de escalation or made reference to Something Like that and importantly number 3 they declared victory in lied about how many lives they took declaring victory is an important thing usually declare victory at the end of som
Bushfires burned across eastern australia prompting a Record Number of emergency warnings. In support calls from a multiple olympic and World Champion for athletes the union or its is an effort to unify the best athletes from around the world sit out the boys we hear from triple jump legend Christian Tell you about this new initiative. Protests in hong kong are mourning the death of a student who fell from a building during a demonstration on monday 22 year old child she died of his injuries on friday where people have gathered for a vigil at the cop park where he fell students have been at the forefront of months of protests in hong kong there are fears childs death could spark more unbiassed sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. The hospital confirms the students death on friday morning chachi luck suffered a brain injury after falling from a car park during a protest on monday but after 2 operations he died of a cardiac arrest was of course. The family wants to tell the media
A weve been looking forward to this those of you on the trigg trigger. I get to moderate this fabulous discussion today, and we are here to launch the book the global struggle to governee the internet. It was Rebecca Mackinnon spoke also a new america book and i was struck when i was reading through the acknowledgments to see in the consent to say few people have had as much influence on online thinking as that book and i thought that is wonderful and you have to have returned that before you knew we were doing this event. We are going to have a discussion and then we will turn it over to you. I want to begin by framing the debate in terms of these two books because i think it says a lot about how to. In 2012, the question is internet freedom. When i was at the state Department Working for secretary ainton, i was very involved in her speech where she talked about the right to connect, and we thought very hard about the importance of being able to connect to the internet as a freedom an