every new arrival brings change and the opportunity for regeneration and renewal. but one thing that won t change here is that, at the home of a cumpari, the door is always open and you are always welcome to join the feast . so bologna, i haven t been here for a very long time. very happy to be back. the people of bologna have been hit hard by the covid pandemic, but i ve arrived during a brief moment of normality, when lock down has been lifted, restaurants are filling up and masks are optional outside. bologna is an ancient university town, the oldest in the western world brought to life by students flaunting their youth. this bread, it s an after
focal point of your attention anymore. reporter: if meta is the future, in the present the facebook brand on the site and the app won t change. what zuckerberg is trying to pull off is more profound than that. he s trying to take control of what he thinks is the big next wave of technology and the question is whether the world accepts that, whether people in spite of all of the controversy and stuff, in spite of all the crises that have hit facebook in the last month, are going to want to put their trust in facebook. reporter: despite accusations of a toxic business model and dangerous palout to match, zuckerberg s strategy of plowing ahead with mission domination has worked. our mission remains the same. and in re-branding zuckerberg has nothing constructive to say about how facebook can become a safe space especially for teenagers and young people. i know some people will say this isn t a time to focus on the future, and i want to acknowledge that there are important issu
any more. reporter: if meta is the future in the present, the site and app won t change. what he is trying to pull off is more profound of that. he is trying to take control of what he thinks is the big next wave of technology and the question is going to be whether the world accepts that, in spite of all the controversy, in spite of all of the crises that hit facebook in the last month are going to want to put their trust in facebook. reporter: despite accusations of a toxic business model and dangerous fallout to match, zuckerberg s strategy of plowing ahead with ambitious market domination has worked. our mission remains the same. reporter: in rebranding, zuckerberg has nothing substantive to say how facebook can become a safer social media space, especially for teenagers and young people. i know that some people will say this isn t a time to focus on the future. i want to acknowledge that there are important issues to work on in the present. there always will be. duri
anonymous, you know, the thing about trump. miles taylor. here s the part i don t get. help me with this professor, they say we got to join with the democrats, moderate democrats to make sure we get people that are legitimate in there and get rid of these trumpers. that doesn t work in an election structure. you got to elect republicans or democrats because we re in a dammed two party system, so how do you manifest what you see as this coalition of the conscientious. well, first of all, i m not saying it s easy. there s no silver bullet. there s no magic formula for saving our democracy. we are without question headed into some rough waters but what it s going to take, is first of all it s going to take kudos to christi todd whitman, but it s going to take more republicans refusing to support any ballot, any nominees, who align with trump. so that means backing democratic candidates. it won t change, there will
refusing to support any ballot, any nominees, who align with trump. so that means backing democratic candidates. it won t change, there will still be a large number of votes for trump, but it s not enough to win. it would reduce the authoritarian core to 35% of the vote. and that s enough. i get you on a 2024 scale. i m thinking more 2022. i hear you. let s reverse it for a second. people will listen and say the bookish guy from harvard, and cuomo s never found something that didn t make him upset. this is nothing. this is just politics, when the democrats say something s wrong with an election, that s okay. the republicans say it, now they re all authoritarians, do you believe that there is any hype to the suggestion that the big lie is an existential problem for this democracy? look, i think it was reasonable that when daniel and i wrote how democracies die in 2017, when it came out in 2018,