Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
The Vatican signed an agreement Wednesday with German carmaker Volkswagen AG to gradually replace its auto fleet with electric vehicles as part of the Vatican's efforts to reduce its carbon emissions. The announcement did not give any details on the value of the deal or set a timetable for completing the switch to electric vehicles. The partnership falls under the Vatican’s “Ecological Conversion 2030” plan, which aims to pursue sustainable, carbon-neutral projects and technologies in the 44-hectare (109-acre) city state in the center of Rome.
and hoping nobody notices. they have used the cafe standards for a long time and i say shame on the auto industry. here is how it works. california is the largest automobile market, so california automatically adopts whatever comes out from the quasi socialist governments. obama did a lot of this stuff. you have to have one version of your auto fleet, so they usually bend to the will of california. so what happens there and the rest of us digest. but finally some pushback, certainly americans are pushing back. and remember, sometimes to meet these cafe standards it means less safety. you have to make lighter vehicles so they can go further. lighter vehicles often means less safe vehicles. things that you have to do to make this but it s all a farce, all a farce. sandra: i worry about that when i see the tiny e.v.s on the road. and some people want the teslas, so the others have a hard time