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Little desperate. that is searching for what does he do next, and frankly, i think his avenues for exit have begun closing down. >> youre calling it -- you said hes facing the greatest threat of his power in decades. >> i have said that, and the reason i say that is that we havent seen this yet in russia is ive seen the little clips of russians on the street saying they trust putin. he wouldnt do this. thats not happening in ukraine. but i do believe that in todays information environment, its i...

Dumb, certainly. another thing that many of us and i know yourself as well have been watching is how the russian public is reacting to this. we have to grant its a largely closed information environment. they dont see the facts, certainly on russian media. so much chased out of the country, the few independent outlets remaining. independent pollster which has had some accuracy in terms of measuring russian public opinion in the past and it shows that putins support is actually increased since th...

Their appetite grows in terms of territories, so, those appetites keep growing, and then you are surrounding keep saying believe me now is the time to take this step that surrounding usually create some kind of information bubble around the leader. now you live in that information environment that they created for you. when you begin to live in such a world. then you get such information and undertake such solutions which are terrible. not civilized. not democratic but some kind of authoritarian...

Frozen because of the previous sanctions, and rubles would be illegal. and thats the end of the story for this regime. >> you have joined ukraines forces, its territorial defense forces in ukraine, something of a citizens army here, and part of your role there as you explained to us is it try to get accurate information about this war into russia. the fact is, though, russia is increasingly a closed information environment. at least the public polling there shows that russians largely support th...

The iron curtain in the information space through new laws and legislation. for example, we know that russian citizens can face up to 15 years in prison for speaking out against war. but also part of this information bubble is the propaganda that the kremlin is pushing, that bubble, this language about de-nazification of the ukrainian society, this narrative that it is russia who is at risk. that this is an existential threat to russians. that kind of propaganda is also extremely difficult to pe...

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We document the negative effect of stock liquidity on default risk for a sample of 46 countries. We further find that default risk declines following the introduction of the Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID)—an exogenous shock that increases liquidity. The effect of liquidity on default risk is more pronounced in countries with poorer investor protection and information environments. Further, this effect is attenuated (strengthened) for firms with greater information effici...

That pertain to its businesses, because governments and legislative bodies it started inquiries into its operations, according to a company email sent out on tuesday night. it remains unclear whether they will face any legal ramifications, but the whistleblowers documents have revealed, the company is quite aware of the dangers of its platform, and downplayed those problems in the pursuit of, making more money. the cofounder and president the center for humane to technology, which is pushing for...

60 minutes. >> when we live in an information environment that is full of angry, hateful, polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust. it erodes our faith in each other. it erodes our ability to want to care for each other. the version of facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart, and causing ethnic violence around the world. >> tearing our society apart. no joke and no accident, she says. shes got evidence or documents to go with that claim. haugen left facebook in may, taking...

Good evening. the lawyer for facebook whistle-blower frances haugen joins us tonight on the eve of her testimony before senate subcommittee. and perhaps it was just a coincidence but today, the worlds largest social network went down. facebook and facebook-owned instagram and whatsapp were all unreachable for much of the day. prompting one twitter user to write half jokingly, instagram and facebook are currently not working as our democracy, society, and a healthy sense of self. except, its no j...