Published. Meantime, facebook is making a big change to its ad business, announcing it will allow people to opt out of seeing political ads on facebook and instagram. Users will be able to mute electoral ads and ads on social issues as well. For more, i want to bring in purses and strategies founding partner, who was before that president obamas Reelection Campaign digital director. Teddy, good to have you back on the show. Facebook may the controversial decision to not factcheck political ads, not factcheck speech from politicians. What is your take on this now middle ground, saying you can turn off political ads if you dont want to see them . Teddy thanks for having me. I think the truth is it is not much of a middle ground. What its doing is putting the onus on the user to do the work. They are saying we wont provide any Fact Checking or any standards whatsoever on our platform, but you the user can click on a few buttons and hopped out if you make that decision. The thing i think t
George washington and why its different than other biographies of americas first president , he spoke at politics and pros store in washington, d. C. I want president ial history because the presidency and especially the person that establishes the office and built around and everyone pressure intoed it its really important that everyone understand him and the presidency but i think that the biographies are alienating in the way that their visual presentation, their titles the way that they are written, and so i really wanted the reader to feel like they had if they had never read a president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book and at the beginning of every section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts and so that was part of it. I really did think a lot about my reader and the other part of it was not washington has been called by an adams family editor, president ial editors, they edit the papers, called him vanilla once to
3. 5 . The s p, a similar gain, about 2. 5 there. And the nasdaq composite up just with over 2 . That is clearly a rally. Helped by the Federal Reserves bond purchases, thats money printing, a report from bloomberg on a possible trillion dollar plan for bridges, roads and 5g access in rural areas, thats the stimulus plan, a new one. Also helping, really helping, news from an Oxford University study, a breakthrough in the treatment of the virus using steroids. It significantly reduced mortality. We also have the rapid opening up of businesses all across the country and maybe an improvement in u. S. china relations. Mike pompeo meets senior chinese officials in hawaii tomorrow. And then theres this retail sales in may up 17. 7 . That reflects the partial reopening of some stores. It is a very strong number. The president just tweeted about it. Ill read it for you. Wow, may retail sales show the biggest one month increase of all time, up 17. 7 . Far bigger than projected. Looks like a big
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His messages are being fact checked, the president signs an order to make social media platforms responsible for the content on their pages. Theres nothing id rather do doan get rid of my whole twitter account. Odonnell but will it backfire . Hail to the graduate hes got four College Degrees at an age when most havent even made it to high school. Boston marathon canceled for the first time in its 124year history. The worldfamous race is called off, but organizers say runners can still participate virtually. And tonight, call it pomp under the circumstances. Some of the most inspiring graduation speeches for a special graduating class. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news tonight out of minneapolis, where the National Guard is being mobilized after violent protests erupted overnight over the death of george floyd. A Minneapolis Police officer press