The institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media platform. This one is not a new problem, social media platforms continue to allow the dangerous disinformation during the covid19 pandemic and in so doing they expose how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role that they play in continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make
Minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the big social media platform in response to the disinformation campaigns around the covid19 pandemic, very serious situation where lives are literally in the balance. Im the director of the George Washington University School of Public Affairs affiliated with the institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media plat
Not necessarily accomplishing what we really need to accompli accomplish. So i have an urgency, an im in my management style. We need to be sure that the successful. Is how did it get off track and when . Good question. Back, its decades and decades of problems that havent been dealt with for a long time that essentially the solutions were difficult, so from ot pushed off administration to administration administration. Theres a natural progression of these problems developing until clearly. Hem now so and you cant go back and change things, but if you could, you have changed . Its a matter of not putting decisions. When there are organizations outside of government are taking and modernizing, government cant afford to fall and keep its head in the sand. These are Management Issues that been important to address and now well tackle them head on. You consider yourself a doctor first and foremost . Absolutely. Patients, but its who i am. I approach he way the job primarily as a physician
Pleasure cove. We are live with tom on the phone. Reporter sometime between 9 30 and 10 00 this morning, two people were killed when a vacaville made plane crashed. It was reported by a fisherman who may have witnessed the crash. Right now even the person that called it in, we are trying to get hold of. Other than that we have no eyewitnesses to the crash. Its located on a cove and its only accessible by boat. Reporter coroners took the bodies away by boat. One source close to the investigation said the two killed were employees of the vacaville based manufacturer icon, identification is pending negatives of the families, for the ntsb, a series of questions must be answered. First things was there something about the pilot that caused the plane to crash or was it the feel or the weather or the waves, then they can come up with the probable cause in hopes that it will never happen again, this is the second crash of an a 5, the first one was sunk with a cracked hull but that crash result
We are back. Roundtable discussion about the we can washington, joining us is gabby, the New York Post Washington Bureau chief along with neil think about her being here. Gabby let me begin with you about the state of healthcare. The senate bill. It was pulled from the floor has our viewers know. So where do things stand now . The majority leader has set a deadline for today hoping todl have a finalized version of a revised bill to send to the Congressional Budget Office so when they return from the july 4 recess theyll have a better idea what the changes have been making will have on the overall impact of the Health Care Bill. It doesnt look like theyveac reach that deadline. They might be sending some components to the cbo today for scoring but they are still working on negotiating this. Theres been a lot of discord and a lot of different senators who want Different Things in the spell who are not happy with the direction that negotiations have gone. Were waiting to see what happens.