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and the nobel prize for physics is awarded to three scientists who worked at the complex calculations needed to measure climate change. welcome to the programme. a former facebook employee has given it damning critique to a us senate committee. frances haugen believed the company put profits first when it knew that the platform occurred promote division and we can democracy. it is said that it was disheartening to see research taken out of context. james clayton reports. it s ringing. eleanor and freya are both 1a and, like many teenagers, they re both on instagram. as a teenager, you re looking at these people, all these models, and, you know, influencers, they all are very skinny and they have, like, a perfect body. and when you re looking at that and then kind of comparing yourself to it, it s very.i think it could be really damaging. when you re feeling at your worst and then you go on instagram and you see things that are, like, targeted at you because you have loo ....
Them. childish effort to get people to vote for you. people might not have loved donald trump s tweet but i loved his policies. i would rather have his tweets and his policies than joe biden and the destruction he has destroyed the american people. harris: and now you have title 42 being wiped away. democrats are pointing the finger at oil executives now happened during combative hearing on gas prices yesterday. to the big oil companies and why they re ripping off the american people. we do not control the market price of crude oil or natural gas and we have no tolerance for price gouging. there was another democrat saying they want to have big oil hearings like they had big tobacco hearings. i think most of us would agree that this just doesn t feel fair. it feels like gouging. we do not set the sale price ....
But we now know that two very important politicians in washington believe the company has put profit over the mental health of teenage girls. james clayton, bbc news, san francisco. let s speak to a washington post reporter, thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for having me. how damaging do you think this testimony will be? it looks very bad for facebook, a lot of people throughout the hearing were comparing this to the big tobacco hearings of the 19905. the big tobacco hearings of the 1990s. there was a famous hearing and a 1994 when the ceos of seven tobacco companies testified before congress and said that they didn t believe their products were addictive, that nicotine was addictive. that then became infamous and contributed to really intense and damaging regulation against the tobacco industry. there are ....
House gases are the primary drivers of such changes. yet for decades many oil companies like exxon knew the use of fossil fuels could ruin the planet and endanger humanity but chose to put its muscle behind efforts to manufacture doubt about the reality of global warming its own scientists once con firld. now the house is investigating. the house environmental committee sent letters requesting information on their role in spreading disinformation setting a hearing date. congressman ro khanna joins me now. tell me what the idea behind this hearing is? chris, you framed it exactly correctly. we want to have big oil hearings like waxman had the big tobacco hearings. in fact, people advising waxman are actually helping us craft the investigation. there are three main objectives. ....
Lobbyists that are killing legislation, and studies minimizing disinformation. we need to get to the bottom of it, like the big tobacco hearings had a forcing function to bring transparency, this will do the same thing. black americans are 40 times more 34% who live with asthma is diagnosed due to air pollution. hispanic americans are likely to live where labor losses projected to highest due to weather. ....