With civil Rights Groups today to address the growing boycott the organizers of stop hate for profit calling the meeting a disappointment saying that Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg are not ready to address the hate on that platform and did not respond to demands of dozens of its largest advertisers the ncaa color of change, Antidefamation League and free press saying Mark Zuckerberg did not offer any tangible plans on how facebook will address the rampant discrimination and violent conspiracies on their platform the meeting that we just left was a disappointment facebook has had our demands in multiple ways and they showed up to the meeting expect an a for atte attending. Attending alone is not enough. Civil Rights Groups saying facebook did not address their list of demands, saying zuckerberg offered no automatic recourse for advertisers whose consent runs alongside hateful posts. They did not address why facebook recommends hateful groups and didnt address rampant disinformation
Minute right now what we really want to do is talk about the hp xerox. Did we move that up well talk about that now because hp board unanimously rejected that bid from xerox to take over that company its weird it was like a reverse pacman a much Smaller Company buying a much bigger one. 22 a share is not in the best interest of its shareholders and undervalue hp. Letter to xerox ceo they sited the potential impact of outsized debt levels at the combined companys stock. They left the door open with the possibility of acquiring xerox. Looks like it would be a good deal but well take over you it was strange either way combined company same debt . Potentially it was odd when i was reading through the letters. Xerox saying they lined up what they thought could be financing that citi group could eventually get for them that seem like a couple stretches. We havent got the highly confident letter from the drexel days from citi on that. In the meantime, new this morning, fedex ceo fred smith is
Good morning. Id like to call the subcommittee on Digital Congress and Consumer Protection to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Again, good morning and welcome to the first hearing of the 115th congress for the Digital Congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee. It is a pleasure to be with you today. Before we get started i want to changer name burgess and vicechairman for the work they did inon the subcommittee and recognize the new vice chair, the gentleman from mississippi, glad to have you on board and working forward to advancing an agenda that creates jobs and puts consumers first. I want to recognize the gentle lady from illinois, our Ranking Member, we will be working with her this congress and looking forward to work in a bipartisan fashion to grow the economy and protect consumers. As chairman, i look forward to working with all the members of the subcommittee to continue exploring areas in the Digital Academy creating new o
Good morning. Id like to call the subcommittee on Digital Congress and Consumer Protection to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Again, good morning and welcome to the first hearing of the 115th congress for the Digital Congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee. It is a pleasure to be with you today. Before we get started i want to changer name burgess and vicechairman for the work they did inon the subcommittee and recognize the new vice chair, the gentleman from mississippi, glad to have you on board and working forward to advancing an agenda that creates jobs and puts consumers first. I want to recognize the gentle lady from illinois, our Ranking Member, we will be working with her this congress and looking forward to work in a bipartisan fashion to grow the economy and protect consumers. As chairman, i look forward to working with all the members of the subcommittee to continue exploring areas in the Digital Academy creating new o
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