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Of second life. and i think its when you have this sort of homogeneous body of people who are creating this next layer of the internet you are setting yourself up for having an experience that does not necessarily apply to everyone or consider everyone. and i think right now the answer to that is, well, dont worry we are designing avatars that reflect what real people look like. and thats great but that does not necessarily consider the harms or potential harms or social dynamics that would exis...

For having an experience that does not necessarily apply to everyone or consider everyone. and i think right now the answer to that is, well, dont worry we are designing avatars that reflect what real people look like. and thats great but that does not necessarily consider the harms or potential harms or social dynamics that would exist for people who come from under—represented or marginalised groups who deserve to have the same safe experience on the internet as the people who are creating i...

Of the things that were eating. so, the content is spanning a whole range of categories. music has always been a huge part of the tiktok content ecosystem, and thats something we see going from strength to strength. just this year in the uk, there have been three major number one singles which have been debuted and discovered by tiktok. so, probably, people have heard of nathan evans or seen the wellerman sea shanty. but then, just very recently, ed sheeran came back into the industry and debute...

>> dr. anne rimoin, and dasha burns with the great on-the-ground reporting as wulz. my thanks to both of you. meantime, a record number of americans are calling it quits. now many employers are scrambling to fill the restaurant and businesses opening at full capacity. joining me from miami, nbc news correspondent sam brock. sam, exactly how many people are leaving their jobs and why are they leave now, based on your reporting? >> reporter: look, nearly 4 million people in the month of april le...

Joining us now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, tell us about the case. i understand its the start of an effort by prosecutors to clear the decks of certain cases so that they can now focus on others? >> right. were approaching 500 arrests since the capitol riots in january. and theyre really into sort of two categories. one is this category that shes in, this is a woman, anna morgan-lloyd from indiana. she came to washington with a friend of hers who is her hairdresser. sh...

Arent happy would be an understatement, and they are scrambling to ilcan the proposals in an unprecedented full-court blitz. joining us now from california is nbc news tech correspondent jake ward. jake, what could this mean for how tech does business, and how could these bills change how everyday people use the internet? >> well, jeff, i mean, its a really extraordinary thing as someone who has followed tech for a couple of decades now to see lawmakers finally catching up with the industry. i m...

Bosses and we can call these shots ourselves, cant we? l yes, you started out on talk radio, and then you took it to twitch, the video streaming platform, and we are going to hear later on in the show how you have now gone direct to consumer, you are selling it to fans, basically, right? yes, on patreon, so they pay us directly and we give them different things for different tiers of money. and also joining us on todays programme is the european tech correspondent for the financial times and yih...

Instead of stirring hate and pointing out others that look and sound different and saying, hate them, we celebrate love, life and art. and to be difficult, you are not actually on late at night any more, you are on in the morning. |yes, we decided we could mix it up| because we are now our own bosses and we can call these shots ourselves, cant we? - yes, you started out on talk radio, and then you took it to twitch, the video streaming platform, and we are going to hear later on in the show how ...

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In donald trumps favor. however, a new report in science magazine lays out a blueprint for trying to assess how social media is trying to be affected by foreign influences and what can be done about it. >> joining us to talk about this is one of the authors of that report. the professor of management at the massachusetts institute of technology. he is a founding partner at manifest capital and author of the upcoming book "the hype machine" about how social media and how it disrupts our world. go...