Weve heard in the previous sessions today about Fact Checking political news, a Law Enforcement is preparing for potential post election violence. Weve also discussed the impact of disinformation about covid19 and communities of color. Our next panel will focus on covid19 political mobilization and digital platforms. Weve seen the power of information and disinformation in the era of coronavirus but how can people cut through the sea of claims and counter claims on the internet and social media and make sense of the sheer volume of information out there . And what is the responsibility of those who oversee social media platforms to make sure that information out there is actually correct and accurate . So today we have a distinguished group joining us. Im going to start with you, first, david. Dr. David is an associate professor in the school of engineering and applied sciences at the George Washington university. Hes the associate director of institute for data, democracy, and politic
Town halls. Who came out on top . I will ask. Also coming up, pfizer announcing it will hopefully be able to move forward with its vaccine next month as americans try to hold out hope. We have the very latest on the trials and how they impact the investing. Of course, its all about your bottom line. We will talk about that at the bottom of the hour. All that and so much more on making money. Charles all right, folks. The markets bolted out of the gate initially powered by higher than expected retail sales through september. Huge number, crushing wall street. In fact, overall, up 1. 9 . The street was looking for up. 7 . More than 300 more above the 0. 4 in consensus and the control group which goes into the gdp report, up 1. 4 . Department stores, they saw a huge rebound, clothing popped as well. Even the internet, its interesting, though, because it had a more pedestrian move. Meanwhile, restaurants, they picked up really nicely as Grocery Stores seemed to have plateaued. Auto sales w
So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
Additional resources, and Additional Information to supplement what is in the learning continuity plan. The next slide is one other point that i wanted to make sure to address. There was a question about this at the public hearing and in the and in the previous draft of the learning continuity plan and we had highlighted that we were pending clarification from the c. D. E. About the actions and expenditures. So i just wanted to take a moment to clarify, to explain that clarification, and the response that we have received. So we wanted to confirm that the actions and the expenditures that are at the bottom of each major section of the plan, we wanted to make sure that we were approaching that process correctly. And so the clarification that we received is that we should be considering both learning loss mitigation funds and lcff funds in our plan. But we do not need to include all of both of those sources. It is up to our discretion, the extent to which we include those funds. But thos
Dominate you dont be afraid of what youre going to be to the u. S. President donald trump is back at the white house after hospital treatment but he is still infected with coated 19 as are a growing number of his staff and paris supporters of bars and its cafes to close hasbro confronts an increasing number of new corona virus infections plus the European Court of justice strikes down controversial hong garion laws at his university funded by philanthropist george soros it rules them incompatible with you lot. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the 20 twentieths nobel prize week continues today with the naming of the winners in the field of physics about to be announced in the coming minutes youre seeing live pictures here from stockholm we are following that live when it happens. But for now were going to turn to growing instability in central asia because the Election Commission encourages stan has an old the results of last weekends parliamentary poll the countrys president is in