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Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and the 2020 election, sort of a deep dive, when it comes to twitter and facebook, about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them. Can we do better . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk a...

About 15 seconds later i missed an pickup truck that was mowed to be explosives blasted about 15 to 20 meters away from his car. All together inflicted wounds on him that led to his martyrdom bag has more from tire on the defense minister to me has been speaking and now he has shed some more light. On the incident, he said the gunman opened fire around 10 to 15 seconds later, a bomb exploded, which was on back on the back of a truck. Then the gunfire continued. There was an exchange of gunfire. ...

Witnesses describe what they saw. I saw the. Attacker running into various bars and restaurants on a burst whole shes very scary she was in the. People running and screaming. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. Voting is now under way in almost all u. S. States and what is expected to be the most divisive election in the countrys modern history and right now we can show you live pictures from a polling station in texas ...

A new law that disqualifies prodemocracy legislators. The u. S. Reports its highest daily death toll from coated 1000 since early may. Health experts warn the pandemic is accelerating. And Jerry Rowlings the military coup leader who guided ghanas transition to democracy. As time goes small says finally, teazle fortuitously, the most delayed and the law is only beginning drawing was a beings with many jews are so driving these opposition now, ethiopias military says its making gains in the northe...

[laughter] natalie, you previously worked for npr and are now working with a get out the Vote Organization you have told us about. We are proud your supporting democracy and you are doing social media. Democracy, media and the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building an app to tell how long polling lines are. Bringing in the democracy, media, and the public sphere. We need those apps. My husband is in line now, a 70minute wait where he is. Both of you get a hat. They each get a hat that...

Acknowledges like robinhood yesterday restricted trading in gamestop and other volatile stocks. Robinhood eased up on those restrictions today but the backlash has been fierce. Here is reaction from conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and bar stool sports Founder David portnoy. Its not just political now. The elites are Bent Out Of Shape that a bunch of average, ordinary users have figured out how to make themselves billionaires. Everything is rigged in favor of the elites. This has upset the ...

This year because of the covid pandemic do we have any real baseline to understand what is going on with the electorate going into this election . I think this election will be unlike anything we have seen in the past. Its hard to know if there is a good corollary. At this point we are seeing far more early and absentee voting then we saw in 2016. Its really off the charts. That looks atart early and in person voting and how it has trended over the past couple of years. People can see from watch...

Hello, everyone. So glad to have you back for democracy media in the public sphere. So first were going to do a shout out to begin our class as weve done before. Can i have natalie and ryan come up here, please . Okay. Natalie and ryan. Natalie and ryan are giving you a shout out, a special shout out to start class. Go ahead and have a seat. So Natalie Natalie has previously worked for npr, you are now working with a get out the Vote Organization which youve told us a little bit about and were j...

There are a lot of people who disagree with Charlie Hebdo theres all this thousands of what you would call is the list is a mystic stream ists. Its very few more terrorists theres very few people who actually do deal if the Charlie Hebdo was so offensive was so horrible surely they could be thousands of people on the streets starving one another its not its a tiny tiny minority what is it about the tiny minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of us and thats why you have to look at th...

Was previously. As new york city becomes a battleground for trouble and haters facebooks reportedly push to beef up its moderation tools to combat postelection violence the system was slammed as a failure of the trial than other countries. Morning this is not International Thanks for joining us. There is growing resentment in europe over the pandemic rules that the number of cases has doubled in some countries governments are trying hard to avoid full log downs citizens a business is a flouting ...