I thank amanda for that. I thank amanda for the work shesing to and trying to do sthees doing and trying to do, but in too many instances, members of congress are not aware of the reality out there. The stories go on and on and on. Now that the 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits has expired. Now that the moratorium on evictions has also expired, this crisis is only to get worse and worse and worse. In my view, we need to extend the extra 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits for the 30 million measures who have lost their jobs. I think that is a nobrainer. People are hurting. People are desperate. People cannot feed their kids. People are going to be evicted from their homes and their apartments. We have got to respond to that pain and extend that 600 supplement to normal unemployment. I would go further. I believe that we need to make sure that every workingclass person in this country receives 2,000 a month until this crisis is over so they can have the security that they need, that t
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
Mythmaking. In many cases these days made americans lives far worse off and in researching this book i found scores of data particularly from gallup and they have asked American Voters for decades now the answers have been overwhelming. The American People simply dont trust the media by a margin of 70 to tell them the truth about some of the ills of the political policies have created and another 60 of American People dont trust politicians to tell the truth about those issues as well. Researching and meticulously detailing the problems also laying out some solutions but having the fact for people to see and in many areas there is glaring issues has been a true testament to the research in this book who is they in the book. Is it just media or others . Explain a lot of this in the introduction. Being a young black man on a college campus, my college campus, unfortunately, looked like too many College Campuses today where young people are not encouraged to think radically but are instea
The two year note at 1. 496 and then lets show you what is going on overnight in asia as i mentioned, these tariffs going into effect today, youre looking at a mixed picture there, the hang seng off just marginal the shanghai composite up just a little bit we are monitoring Hurricane Dorian and well take you live to the path of dorian in a few minutes but we want to talk about hong kong and whats going on there, the protests continue here lets get to chris with the latest theyre now in their 13th week in hong kong and this last one has already been the most violent over the weekend we saw battles between police and protestors who turned out to the streets by the tens of thousands. First very peacefully and then things got violent and some of them threw bricks and bars at Police Police responded with a volley of tear gas. A water cannon and something that we hadnt seen before putting blue dye in the water in order to identify protestors afterwards and things got uglier when he chased a