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And she is also the author of twitter and tear gas, which is for sale after tonights program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy and commerce where solutions to hard problems lie. We are recording tonights event with both via cspan, as well as more radio. So please do take a moment to silence your cell phones. Ask is we would like to thank kqeds audio engineer who is joining us this evening. Youll notice that we have blue question c...

Thank you everyone and welcome to tonight program. We are very pleased to have joining us this evening zeynep tufecki. She is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times as well as an assistant professor in the school of information and Library Science at the university of north carolina. And shes also the author of twitter and tear gas which is for sale after tonight program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy, and commerce...

And commerce where solutions to hard problems lie. We are recording tonights event both by cspan and for radio, so take a moment to silence your cell phones and we would like to thank jane. Your question cards on your seats, so please make use of them and write your questions down and given we will be talking about social media and tonights program we invite you to get involved in our online conversation using the World Affairs alive, if youd like to engage in online discussion. I would now like to introduce our moderator this evening who is an adjunct professor at the school of information at...

Facebook. Com cspan. Here are a couple of the front pages this morning. Heres the Washington Times. Conservatives call for delay of repeal vote on obamacare. The New York Times says republicans face dilemma on health bill. And here is the Washington Post, g. O. P. Holdouts leaves Health Care Bills vote in doubt. Jennifer haberkorn with politico, where do we stand with the Health Care Bill . Guest i think your definition of uncertainty is the right way to put it. Republican leaders still are planning to put the vote today. They never set a time for this bill except to they told members yerl thi...

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