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Peter this week on the communicators, we want to introduce you to luther lowe, who is the Senior Vice President for Public Policy for a site called yelp. Mr. Lowe, what exactly is yelp, and what do you do . Luther thank you for having me on today, peter. It is a pleasure. Yelp is a website and Popular Consumer application that allows people to connect with great local businesses. It is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gems, at a way for consumers to warn fellow consumers about not so great businesses. Host how many visitors a month to have ....

People to roam and be generalist and go wherever they find interesting stories and something i found interesting at the time was what the internet was doing there was as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt political in my mind at that time but it was what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know its true or important versus irrelevant and out to spend her time so i was looking at this as a tech story and business story and i was looking at quick bait forms and how they get you to click on things and wister died and money from that ...

People to connect with state and local businesses. Its a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gyms and a way for consumers to warn fellow consumers about not serving businesses. Host how many visitors a month did you have . Guest depending on how you want to break it out, theres folks that access it via mobile web, via the website, via the app. Its about, north of 100 Million People and then we had over 200 million reviews that have been submitted. Host how do you make money . Guest not unlike Services Like google, Search Engines, it is a vertical...

Joining us on the communicators is andrew marantz. He is a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, techno utopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. If i understand it correctly, the book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Andrew yes, so around 2014, 2015, i was writing for the new yorker. And you know, its a magazine that allows people to kind of roam and be generalists and sort of go wherever th...

Joining us on the communicators is andrew marantz. He is a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, techno utopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thank you for joining us. Andrew absolutely, thank you for having me. If i understand it correctly, the book grew out of reporting that you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Andrew yes, so around 2014, 2015, i was writing for the new yorker. And you know, its a magazine that allows people to kind of roam a...