Its slowly realizing. That over the past few month, we seen facebook acknowledge their roll in the spread of propaganda in the last elections. You probably saw it. It didnt look like russian propaganda, of course. It looked like authentic news, the guardian connecting Hillary Clinton to the death of an fbi agent was shared over and over. Not only is that article not true, there is no such thing as the Denver Guardian him Facebook Says 140 Million People saw that on the news feed. That is more people than voted in the entire election. Facebook has tried several solutions from flagging news articles to asking users to credit News Agencies the simplest solution is to remove news articles, give up. But that, too, is a problem. Legitimate newsrooms around the country, newsrooms like the San Francisco chronicle count on traffic to drive it to their website. Audrey cooper is the editorinchief at the chronicle kwlts and wrote a scathing letter to Mark Zuckerberg saying, because you havent been
Good evening ladies and gentlemen as director of the library we have professor of history at the university of North Carolina nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize in the author one of the great books about the civil war talking about the importance of religion of american politics leading up to the civil war with the decline of evangelical religions after the civil war with the post reconstruction era and jim crow. It is a great book that refrains for race and religion in america. In his new book when government was good that may seem like a distant past we heard about the place of government and with executive leadership it is a book about truman and eisenhower with those who came after with the truman president ial library we know a lot about truman and his executive leadership with form policy with the great decisionmaking without domestic policy and in particular with race and those inequalities that we are very concerned with today but to use those executive powers of the presid
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Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. Its sort of the way dreams come to us. Yang all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang north korea has again seized the worlds attention with a new nuclear blast. The weekend test may move pyongyang a quantum leap forward in its bid to become a nuclear power, capable of threatening the u. S. Mainland. That, in turn, has set off a new diplomatic flurry. Nick schifrin reports. Enough is enough. Reporter for the second time in a week, the Security Council today held an emergency session on
Thin air or out of my unconscious mind. Its sort of the way dreams come to us. Yang all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Yang north korea has again seized the worlds attention with a new nuclear blast. The weekend test may move pyongyang a quantum leap forward in its bid to become a nuclear power, capable of threatening the u. S. Mainland. That, in turn, has set off a new diplomatic flurry. Nick schifrin reports. Enough is enough. Reporter for the second time in a week, the Security Council today held an emergency session on north korea. And u. S. Am