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Why this book and why now . Guest i started this but i guess it was 2017 and i had just taken a job as columnist for the Financial Times where my mandate was to figure out the biggest business and economic stories and cover theinthe cover than am which is another mandate. I saw amazing numbers in terms of transitions in the financial sector. The figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was being held at 10 and those are the firms that were the richest in personal data and intellectual property. The biggest of those firms facebook, apple, amazon a little bit. Big and Digital Advertising they have mostly shunned advertising with the devices and technology. You mentioned it isnt an ad driven company but on a whole different basis besides the fact we think of them as being tech do they have one thing in common . Guest it is an interesting point you make because right now they are trying to separate each other as regulators what they do have in common is the Network Effect that i talked
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt they addressed the policy on political ads, the Company Remains under pressure about the election Elizabeth Warren says heres the thing, trump isnt just posting a lion his own page for his own followers, facebook is accepting millions of dollars from trump to run political ads, including ones with misinformation and outright lies. Joining us to breakdown the speech, response and more at post nine, early facebook investor, roger mcnamee, author of zucked. What were you most surprised by, rocker that he wanted to come out in public and say all of that to me, the tin ear is so extreme that if it hadnt been for all the other nonsense coming out of washington, it would be the only story people would be talking about today. At the end of the day facebook isnt actually having a Free Expression problem, it has an amplification problem, it has an issue of essentially because it uses micro targe
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
From their platforms. This is a matter of serious importance to the safety and wellbeing of her nations communities. I sincerely 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 welcome representatives from the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and on line platforms. We hear from ms. Monika bickert, head of the local policy management for facebook. And mr. Nick pickles Public Policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater global director of information policy at google and mr. George salim Senior Vice President of programs for the antidefamation league. Over the past two decades the United States has let the world in development of social media and other services that allow people to connect with one another. Open platform like Google Twitter facebook and instagram and youtube have dramatically change the way we communicate and have been used p