Jose. I should say here in silicon valley, we are in mountain view. Joining me tonight, got director of internet ethics, former chief Security Officer at facebook and director of the stanford intimate observatory. In director of journalism and media ethics. This evening is co presented with ethics, this is part of kq series on common ground. Its an initiative bringing people together for civil discourse featuring journalists, hosting provocative conversations about politics and policy, arts and culture, science and technology. Reckoning with force of disagreement among us about how to face the future, cultural and environmental uncertainty is series asked our shared responsibilities to the common good. Next, if youve got an open calendar tuesday 7 00 p. M. , the San Francisco exploratory them, we will look at how we overcome polarization will talk about tonight. Twelve tonights topic, its under attack, worldwide. Populism is on the rise. This information is number one and social media
A 100 rangar refugees now indonesia says it plans to send them back out to sea. And australias Biggest Airline qantas is set to cut 6000 jobs saying it has to shrink to survive and. New coronavirus cases in the u. S. Have risen to their highest levels in 2 months its now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 121000 deaths researches the university of washington and now predicting that nearly 180000 could die by october what about half of the 50 states are seeing a surge cases are rising in the states seen here in dark orange and going down in the grey the states shaded light orange a stable experts say large parts of the country are on the verge of becoming overwhelmed his mike hanna. Cases of the virus are peaking in at least 9 u. S. States most of them ones that dropped mitigating measures earlier than others like texas where the number of people being hospitalized has doubled in the past 2 weeks and people got. Complacent people got a little bit overly confident in our
Thursday. Its the highest numbers seen since the end of the emergency declaration. In the last several weeks schools, shops an restaurants have reopened under some new rules. People have also begun traveling between prefectures. More than 1500 people have tested positive for the virus during the past month, nearly half were in tokyo. Other prefectures with major cities including fukui cowah, hokkaido and kanagawa. 17 prefectures without a single new case. In total, more than 18,000 people in japan have tested positive since the virus was first discovered. About 970 people have died. Japan began easing Coronavirus Travel measures thursday as a plane full of Business People headed for vietnam. 150 people boarded a plane at narita airport near tokyo. Its the first flight since the two countries agreed l last wee to resume business travel. Translator im happy that i will no longer have the stress of having to work online. The airline provided protective gowns and face masks. To avoid quara
Good evening everyone, thank you for coming out here tonight. My name is rachel miro, i had to make sure by looking at the sheet of paper. I am the Senior Editor of our silicone valley desk here in san jose. I say here in san jose, but here in Silicon Valley because we are in mountain view. Joining me on the stage is the director of internet ethics, alex stall moos, former chief security officer, and the director of the stanford internet observatory. Director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. This is part of this series on common ground. It is an initiative bringing people together for civil discourse featuring journalist hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, arts and culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the force of disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This serious asks what are our shared responsibil
If anyone was going to write a tellall it is more likely to be you but any juicy secrets you share anyway, that wasnt really an option for me but this is not a book i am trying to write. I did have some ideas coming out of office. I thought maybe something on a new view of Public Health to rebuild the Public Health infrastructure. I would write about my time in office and what i learned about government. What happened is sometimes you can have the best laid plans and then change direction and that happened to me. In 2017 i wrote an article for Harvard Business review because the editor asked me to. I wasnt entirely sure how interested Business Leaders would be but what i found following publication of the article is i was getting so many messages from around the world other than media folks who said this is a real problem. These messages would come from india, japan, south korea, countries across europe and latin america but a whole bunch of other types of messages. I have been struggl