Left the first panelist here is laura and she is the wellknown voice on National Public radio Digital Culture correspondent. I hope many of you heard or will listen to her amazing story, one of the stories that really brought the issue alive in my mind. She tracked down a company with me, with big new sites and that air for the first time last november as been listen to many times since. Adam, we are very happy to have someone here who is very high up as Vice President of newsfeed at facebook. 1. 8 billion people are using facebook now. Adam manages the team responsible for delivering relevant content. That is news cant to all of those facebook users. Recently, facebook has taken some important steps to address the problem of fake news on their platform. We are delighted to have his presence. We have Craig Newmark with us. Craig is a web pioneer. The founder of craigslist. He is a speaker and a philanthropist who also introduces himself as modestly as a news consumer. He can also claim
Laura seidel and she is the well known voice on Digital Culture correspondent and i hope many of you heard or will listen to her amazing story on disinfo media that really brought this issue alive in my mind. She tracked down a company with many fake news sites and that aired for the first latime last november and aired many times since. Adam, were happy to have someone here high up as the Vice President of news feed at facebook and 1. 8 billion people use facebook now and adam manages the team responsible for delivering relevant con tentent the facebook users and recently, a facebook has taken some important steps to address the problem of fake news on their platform. And were delighted to have his presence. We have craig numark with us. Founder of craigs list. Hes a speaker and philanthropist and often introduces himself as modestly a news consumer and son can also claim to be one of the internets best known nerds, but all of this comes right from his own selfdescription but he recen
Remember, as you walk the capitol hill, that you are building on the legacies of those who walked those halls before us. And you are starting a new legacy that we are building for future veterans. So carry that legacy forward. Thank you for all you do, day in and day out, month after month, and year after year. God bless you, and may god bless our country, the United States of america. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] in case you missed it, here are some clips of cspans programming this last week. Joe biden. Ent i have been covered by the best in the business and some of the worst. Some of you press guys who are lousy, just like some senators who are lousy, doctors are lousy, lawyers are lousy. But it does not matter. We should never challenge the basic truth that an independent and free press is a fundamental eleme
And with a choice anecdote this is how you begin your memoir. You find yourself in the heat of the nevada desert desperately trying to communicate over a phone line, a phone booth. You remember phone booths . Are battling off a fire ants and you had just written a song for someone and you are having a hard time getting through to this individual or tell us the story. So, this was the morning after a gig we did at the greek theatre in los angeles and backstage at the Greek Theater was none other than Michael Jackson and he said to me, to my astonishment he knew the names of some of my songs and asked me if i had any extra songs knocking around and im like sure i do, michael. He said yet anything like hyperactive. It so happens i have something exactly like hyperactive and he said when can i hear it and i said i can make a demo in the back of my tour bus and i can send it to you from my personal computer and i had a personal computer from radioshack, you know one of those things with the
The fate news fake news and i dunno how we address that. What i thought was interesting i did not have access to the saudis digest followed the mahon twitter. And i started reading that they treated in arabic at least three of them said i did not do that some deals did. So in another conversation the power of the internet and social media but it encourages people to be more aggressive but we but they try to convince me they did not treat that then to say if you didnt then answer the question. So i think that danger of platter, to give people the license for what they were saying to be retracted. Did you come out of that [inaudible conversations] we have a discussion on music and technology coming up next. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon to the next panel if you are interested of music and technology were in the right place. And with a choice anecdote this is how you begin your memoir. You find yourself in the heat of the nevada desert desperately trying to communicate over a p