Jose. I should say here in silicon valley, we are in mountain view. Joining me tonight, got director of internet ethics, former chief Security Officer at facebook and director of the stanford intimate observatory. In director of journalism and media ethics. This evening is co presented with ethics, this is part of kq series on common ground. Its an initiative bringing people together for civil discourse featuring journalists, hosting provocative conversations about politics and policy, arts and culture, science and technology. Reckoning with force of disagreement among us about how to face the future, cultural and environmental uncertainty is series asked our shared responsibilities to the common good. Next, if youve got an open calendar tuesday 7 00 p. M. , the San Francisco exploratory them, we will look at how we overcome polarization will talk about tonight. Twelve tonights topic, its under attack, worldwide. Populism is on the rise. This information is number one and social media
We are back with images showing just one of several fastmoving wildfires burning in arizona right now. Thousands of people have been evacuated and several highways are either fully or partially closed. So far no structures have been damaged, but flames have scorched more than 300 square miles. As we officially head into summer tomorrow, several states are reporting soaring Coronavirus Infection rates. 20 states are seeing increasing numbers of new virus cases. 18 have growing rates of hospitalizations. California is among the states that just set a daily record for new cases. That forced governor gavin newsom to require everyone to wear a mask when in public. Those soaring infection rates in the south have some governors from former hot spots in the north considering travel restrictions, but are they effective . I spoke earlier with dr. David eisenman. Were seeing troubling coronavirus numbers across much of the south, including in texas and arizona. New yorks governor says he might is
Thank you for coming out tonight. My name is rachel miro. I had to look at the sheet of paper to make sure. [laughter] rachel i am the Senior Editor of our Silicon Valley desk here in san jose. I should say Silicon Valley because we are in mountain view. Joining me on stage is the director of internet ethics, alex damas, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. This event is part of kquds series on common ground. It is an initiative bringing people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, art, culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good . Common good . Next in the series if you have an open
Joking. How anyone can tell when mike pence is joking, i dont know, but he was joking because i only watched part of the video. Turns out there were 29 minutes of this on cspan that indicate he was joking about carrying the empty boxes for the camera. Which i didnt know. I dont have the endurance to watch mike pence carry boxes for 29 minutes on cspan. Bottom line is, i was wrong, he was joking. When i found out i was wrong, i acknowledged it by taking the video down and tweeting an apology of sorts to the best of my ability. Apologizing to the Trump Administration for spreading untruth is like apologizing to barry bonds for using steroids. Its hard, but the outrage from the maga hats. The outpouring of venom was disgusting. Stupid, too. But mostly disgusting. Some of these lunatics have the audacity to use the word christian in their bios. But that didnt stop them from wishing death on me, my family, my son. Some said they hope my son dies, they threatened my wife. There were hundreds
Facility for senior citizens. It was a publicity stunt to show how much theyre doing. But that happens in politics, ok. Fine. The trouble started because at one point of the video, after awkwardly lugging a heavy box to the door, pence finds some empty boxes in the van. Why there were empty boxes in the back of the van i dont know. But he finds them and says, can i just carry the empty ones just for the camera . Which turns out he was joking. How anyone can tell when mike pence is joking i dont know. I didnt know. But he was joking. I didnt know because i had only seen part of the video. Turns out, there were 29 minutes of this on cspan, that apparently indicate he was joking about the empty boxes for the cameras. Which, again, i did not know because i dont have the mental endurance it requires to watch mike pence deliver boxes for 29 minutes on cspan. But i should have watched the whole thing. I guess. Bottom line is, i was wrong. He was joking. I didnt know. I made a mistake. And whe