Legislators from both the u. S. And canada, discussed the challenges they are facing. Cement was caused by George Washington University Institute for data democracy and politics. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the social media platforms in response to this information campaigns around covid19 pandemic. Very serious situation. Obviously where it lives are literally in the balance. On director of the George Washington University School of many of the public affairs. Affiliated with the institute of data democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on disinformation. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panelists and guests. And if you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a. And make sure that is addressed to everybody so that we can all see it and i will try to incorporatee at least some of those questions to our panel in a bit. So
The institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media platform. This one is not a new problem, social media platforms continue to allow the dangerous disinformation during the covid19 pandemic and in so doing they expose how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role that they play in continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make
Minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the big social media platform in response to the disinformation campaigns around the covid19 pandemic, very serious situation where lives are literally in the balance. Im the director of the George Washington University School of Public Affairs affiliated with the institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media plat
Friday brawl, it was all caught on camera. Andrea, reports 2 teenagers are facing charges tonight. Andrea. Reporter that is right. They are looking for six others with additional charges. This into an offduty chp officer to the hospital. It was 8 pm black friday when this woman, in a white coat approached a group of teenagers she thought stole her cell phone, 30 minutes earlier. They were pushing her and being violent. Reporter you can see this man in a denim coat, an off duty california Highway Patrol officer step in. He appears to take cell phone pictures of those teenagers. Those teenagers and turned on him. And attack that lasted nearly 2 minutes. He was taken to the ground. He was choked. He lost consciousness for a minute. He came back and was able to defend himself. Reporter you see the man in the yellow vests, they are street security. They help break up the attack and contacted in emeryville officer who was 200 yards away in front of the apple store. The offduty officer took h
Looks like a nice day. Itll be similar to yesterday. Temperature running a little cool for this time of year but no complaints. Nice weather coming our way. Cool to mild around the bay area. A little the fog and cloud cover. Are going to catch the tail end of that. We may even squeeze out a sprinkle or two. I will say that in a mome lets take a look at the numbers this morning. Santa rosa 44, San Francisco 54, livermore and san jose right about 50. Most of us a little cooler. Half moon bay down by 13 so a lot cooler for you. Down by seven in novato. Meanwhile the east bay, livermore, concorde, and fairfield always temperatures up from yesterday. Low, mid and highlevel clouds which come from that system right there. Bring you some rain to washington, oregon, and Northern California. As we roll through today will get some of that cloud cover. Here is a look at what you can expect by lunchtime. A few showers over lake county, edging into Sonoma County. Chance for a few sprinkles. Then thi