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Stories and uncover them in opinion form which is a rather large mandate. [laughter] in order to narrow the funnel i started looking through corporate figures and i saw from an amazing number of in terms of how the transition from the Financial Sector to the Technology Sector since the great financial crisis and one of the numbers that stuck out was a Mckinsey Global institute figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was being held in just 10 of firms and those are the firms that were richest in personal data and intellectual property so basically if you are trafficking in these things you are holding the majority of the worlds corporate wealth and the biggest of those firms were the ones that i profile in the book, facebook, apple, amazon, netflix a little bit and google. They make money, all of them, pretty d ....
Funding from Tech Companies, foundations, and private individuals. Reportt put out a new called the crisis of social media. What is the main take away in this report . The main take away is that the internet is becoming less free around the world. There are many trends we have seen around how Free Expression and privacy are under threat. The main thing we look at this year is how governments around the world are using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their own citizens. To help us dig into this issues as our guest, sarah. I want to dive into that dynamic. You say some governments of weaponizing social media to target their own populations. What does that mean . There are three distinct tactics that we saw in a 65 countries that we covered. That translates to 87 of all Internet Users around the world. The ....
Of tact and democracy. Mr. Shabazz, before we get into the freedom of the net report that Freedom House has put out, what is Freedom House . Guest Freedom House is an independent organization founded in 1941 to promote democracy both in the United States and overseas. We do this through research, advocacy and on the ground programming in many countries around the world. Host how are you funded and is their government funding about . Guest there is government funding in part from the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development but its also a bit diverse in that we have funding from Tech Companies, from foundations and private ....
But youve got to imagine strategically the fact that theres an impeachment inquiry now open on the president and at least in theory there is some statistical chance that theres a removal of a president , although everyone reviews as extremely unlikely here, if youre the chinese you might think lets wait and see what happens. Flip that and look at the incentives facing the president. Hes facing a situation where he wants to prove that he is delivering on the economy for the american people. He may now need a deal, need a victory here politically and economically more than he did a week ago, so the pressure on him might be to get a deal even if its not as good as he might have set out for initially but this president has been very focused on this and said hes only going to take a deal if he feels its a win for the american people. Eamon javers outside by the flags doing great work today keeping our viewers attuned to the news appreciate that. Good morning once again, everybody. It is 8 0 ....
The freak. [laughter] thanks a a lot. Have a great weekend. Good afternoon, everyone, im charles payne, this is making money. Breaking right nowing stocks mostly drifting, right . Sort of mixed economic data. A lot of confusion on the true state of the economy. Look, inflations hanging tough which means the fed is still lingering around, and as long as the feds casting a shadow on this market, by the way, many are saying dont write off of a recession just yet either. And for once im agreeing with joe biden, chinas economy is a ticking time bomb which makes them a ticking time bomb. But the question is, what are we going to do about it . Speaking of big, the big guy has got some other problems. Moments ago attorney general garland are finally appointing a special counsel to the hunter biden investigation. But its not everything it looks like it could be. David webbs got some serious issues with it. Hell explain it at 2 40. And then my takeaway on the constant putting down of the socalle ....