At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
At post 9. Also today, the president and ceo of the aspen institute, walter isaacson. Walter, good to see you again this morning. Good to be back with you. Our top story today, one weve been following pretty much all week. That is the moment of truth that social media is going through following Donald Trumps president ial win one week ago. In the last 24 hours, twitter has suspended a number of accounts associated with the altright Movement Just as it announced a new effort to crack down on hate speech. And in the fight against fake news on social media, tech executives from alphabet to linkedin say mistakes were made and the valley has to do more. At google, weve always cared about bringing the most relevant and accurate systems to users and thats where almost all of our work goes at the end of the day. When i look at it, its important to remember, we get billions every day. There have been a couple of instances where its been pointed out and we clearly did not get it right, and so it