The institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media platform. This one is not a new problem, social media platforms continue to allow the dangerous disinformation during the covid19 pandemic and in so doing they expose how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role that they play in continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make
Minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the big social media platform in response to the disinformation campaigns around the covid19 pandemic, very serious situation where lives are literally in the balance. Im the director of the George Washington University School of Public Affairs affiliated with the institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media plat
Runs here. They were safe bets and safe harbors in the middle of that whole virus storm. Apparently proving that even after the fact right now. The point in the selloff, everyone was abandoning stocks, no matter what their business prospects, how many regret doing that now . Knowing that all of those issues have come storming back, in fact race to highs beyond their old highs. And, look at the dow, look at s p 500. Even with the selloff here, five, six Percentage Points away from alltime highs. Not too shabby. A lot of this is built on optimism, today notwithstanding about the reopening of the economy across the board despite more than a dozen case reporting spikes in cases, most say the spikes are manageable. That is really in the eye of the beholder. Jackie deangelis breaking down what were looking at. Reporter good afternoon, neil. You point out the nasdaq is moving higher but the rest of the markets are pulling back. You have the push pull here as market moved high as you know, inv
Attention on the show. The fact that the concentration of cases, still seems to be overwhelmingly in the new york city metropolitan area. That includes all five boroughs. Outside the Greater New York city area. Now that is not necessarily a shock. What tends to be here is the idea that when it comes to the number of new cases and the deaths it is about two out of three in both cases that come from the new york city metropolitan area. Why would i mention that . Because on the 15th of this month were going to see the state ease up on some of the stay at home provisions but that will be largely in upstate new york. So we are telegraphing from what he is saying, this is me making that leap, it certainly doesnt look like it would happen in the new york city area, particularly the concentration of these cases remains in the new york city area. Another footnote on these reports here, most have been at home. Most of these cases, indeed most of the deaths, they are older, they are more likely t
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