a handful of tech entrepreneurs in silicon valley have become the editors in chief of the internet. mark zuckerberg of facebook, jack dorsey of twitter, we talk about them and their companies all the time, but we very rarely hear from them. well today, we will. because steve huffman is the ceo of reddit, a multibillion dollar company which is the seventh most visited website in america. so, what is reddit? is this what the internet should look like, a free space for free speech? a news platform where anything malicious orjust plain boring dwindles away? what we learn from the company s battle against conspiracy theories and white supremacist content. and how did a social media site come to take on and humble wall street? steve, welcome to the show. my pleasure. i m honoured to be here today. let s start at the beginning of your illustrious career. your two roommates in uni on the american east coast who came up with and coded a social media site that is today worth billions,
so much happening. and thang us k you for joining . amateur hour. that s the focus of tonight s angle now in a small community, north dighton, massachusetts, the feds showed up in full gear. they even brought an armored vehicle all to take into custody. elon svehicle grant.orce a twenty one year old air force national guardsman. tod the justice department arrested jacayk douglas tachira in connection with ane in investigation into toalleged unauthorized removal,n retention and transmission of classified nationa l defense. information. tachira is an employee o f the united states air forcenfora national guard. we will share more informationti at the appropriate time. actually , the appropriatee l time is now. so the angle will shar ear more information and provide some much needed context. first, let s understanlet d what the biden administration is trying to do here. it s somehow tryin g to turnes in one of the worst intelligence breaches of the past two decades. th dec
press secretary did about just why this this 21 year old air national guardsman was allowed, apparently to have access to such classified material and what pentagon press secretary writer told reporters that essentially the military and trust highly classified information to people of all ages, including very young service members, essentially depends on what your job is and what you need to do that job. he gave the example of course of very young service members at leading people into combat. he said that basically it doesn t matter what your age is. it is just the job that you need to do. and so the pentagon did say, however, that they are taking steps to mitigate any potential leaks like this in the future. they are limiting the amount of information, for example, that they are disseminating widely across the u. s government. we have been told that people who were receiving these kinds of highly classified documents over the last several months have simply stopped receivin
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