In recent years, domestic terrorism and specifically white supremacist conspiracy related and antigovernment violence has become one of our nations greatest Homeland Security threats. Last october the Committee Held a hearing to examine the role that social media platforms played in the amplification of domestic extremists content and how the content can translate into realworld violence. We heard from expert witnesses, who discussed how recommendation algorithms and targeting and other amplification tools push extreme content to users because that type of content is what keeps people active on the platforms. Unfortunately because these platforms are designed to push the most engaging, post to more users, the end up amplifying extremist, dangerous and radicalizing content. This includes qanon, stop the steal and other conspiracy theories, as well as white supremacist and antisomatic rhetoric. In some cases the content, may not necessarily violate a companys community guidelines, and ot
This program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Captioning sponsored by wpbt susie good evening everyone. Sales of new homes fell to an alltime record low in july. Tom, youd have to look back to 1968 to see home sales this low. They plunged 12 last month. Tom and susie, todays news comes on top of yesterdays disappointing report of a big drop in existing home sales. Things are so gloomy that president obama took time out of his vacation to hold a Conference Call with his economic team, focusing on the deteriorating Housing Market. Susie home prices continue to fall as well. The median price of a new home last month was 204,000, almost 5 lower than a year ago, according to the commerce department. Now, prices on existing homes . About 183,000, slightly higher than last summer. Lower prices havent been enough to turn browsers into buyers, and economist dean baker says theres a reason why theyre waiting. People are acting reasonably, given that yo
Orders and sales in italy, orders flat on the month, down. 2 on the month for sales and down nearly 5 on the year. So confirming some of the weakness that we know weve seen previously in the italian economy. Meanwhile, another gauge perhaps for the euro as we look to the strength of it lately. Thats the current counselor plus which in october was an adjusted 3. 9 billion euros, up quite a bit from the 2. 5 billion reported for september. Now that also comes after a day after the European Unions report suggesting that in fact the European Union would have to run a surplus, given its poor demographics over the next couple of years. Now lets get a quick preview of the news. For that we head to patricia, awaiting the results. What do we expect to see . Reporter were expecting the second consecutive month to the upside for the Business Sentiment next year in germany. November was a surprise after six months to the downside. We expect december to book in a little increase again, but importan
12hour sessions are envisioned by Mitch Mcconnell per day from say 1 00 p. M. To 1 00 a. M. I dont know, rachel. Ive been thinking about it and i have a couple of hours to think about it. I think strategically what hes going for hes trying to shutdown the Rachel Maddow show this week. He thinks thats the only way he can get america to think his way. Listen, if the Rachel Maddow show needs to scoot into the wee hours, it will do so. I will say thinking about this prospect, not this exact prospect of a. M. Hours for impeachment but think about the president s impeachment trial arriving while you and i are hosting prime time tv shows i always imagined if Something Like this happened in my professional life, id be like in better shape. I would have been in training, id be building up my stamina for months. But im just like im the same old i ever was. How are we going to do this . But this is the way impeachments work because its a National Crisis thats been building for months and months a
Prospect, not this exact prospect of a. M. Hours for impeachment but think about the president s impeachment trial arriving while you and i are hosting prime time shows on tv where our jobs are to explain things, i always imagined if Something Like this happened in my professional life id be like in better shape. I would have been in training, id be building up my stamina for months. But im just like im the same old i ever was. How are we going to do this . But this is the way impeachments work because its a National Crisis thats been building for months and months and months. So the news system is already kind of exhausted by the time you get to the impeachment trial. Yes, i wanted like a preseason. Dont worry. Youre going to get your impeachment trial adrenaline tomorrow right on time. All right. I feel like ive been living on adrenaline for three years, but i can do it a little longer. Thank you, rachel. Well, we are already drowning in scholarly interpretations by law professors an