This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Today, we will discuss with the technology is doing to remove violent and extremist tenth from their platform. This is a matter of serious important to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today, we representative on the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms, we hear from this Monika Bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook, and mr. Nick pickles, policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater, Global Policy director, and Senior Vice President of program for the anti defamation league. Over the past two decades, the United States has led the world in the development of social media and other services to allow people to sites like google, facebook, and twitter, and platforms like instagram and twitter have ch
War have crushed the syrian pound and with it the economy. Welcome to do that your business i want to get johnson berlin to have you with us a chinese delegation is on its way to washington for preliminary talks aimed at paving the way for next months trade negotiations deputy finance minister the albanian will be leading the chinese team the stakes are higher for both sides after previous attempts to come to an agreement to end a trade war failed the 2 countries half imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on each others goods hurting manufacturers and farmers in particular. For more lets bring in our asia correspondent in taipei to 102. 00 the latest Economic Data shows the trade route is hurting china a little bit more than the United States for now at least whats that mean for china is beijing the negotiating position is it a one off weakness. Well not necessarily because theres a different understanding on the chinese side even though there are now more people in china
Hearing. The chair is roger wicker of mississippi. This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Today, we will discuss with the technology is doing to remove violent and extremist tenth from their platform. This is a matter of serious important to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today, we representative on the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms, we hear from this Monika Bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook, and mr. Nick pickles, policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater, Global Policy director, and Senior Vice President of program for the anti defamation league. Over the past two decades, the United States has led the world in the development of social media and other services to allow people to sites like google, facebook, and twitte
Way. Most of the markets are headed higher. We will tell you all you need to know. The need for weed, as cannabis is being legalised across the united states. We meet one company is helping to turn local pot growers into big business. But, do you think that cannabis should be treated the same way as tobacco and alcohol . That is what we are asking today. Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Dont hold back. Tell us what you think about the legalisation of cannabis and its sale en masse in places like colorado. It is a hot debate. Brexit dominates the headlines again. The uk Prime Minister is said to be fighting battles within her conservative party over the terms of leaving the European Union and today the eu is expected to sign off on what it wants for the all important transition phase. There are two key dates. The 29th march next year is when the uk government insists its leaving the eu. The second is 31st december 2020. Thats when the eu wants the so called transition perio
I was publisher of the wall street journal. I spent quite some time overseeing the Digital Businesses of the journal. I consider myself, in fact, maybe the oldest possible digital native. I oversaw businesses that were based on what we then called electronic publishing even before the internet in the 1990s, so i lived in a time before the internet, before Technology Policy was aimed at encouraging innovation back in the 80s and 9s 90s and before government was heavily involved in regulating communications telephones, other technologies. The internet was different in the 1990s. It was liberating, it was permissionless, it was very little government regulation. Were all beneficiaries of that, and my column tries to identify areas where we may be black siding backsliding or where we may be suppressing innovation or not making the most of this extraordinary opportunity. Host well, youve written that washington is a disaster for innovation disaster area for innovation. Why do you write that