Amanpour: Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Richard Haass and Anya Hindmarch

Amanpour

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Helle Thorning-Schmidt, co-chair of the Facebook oversight board, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the threat disinformation and conspiracy theories pose when gone unchecked. Thorning-Schmidt says that, over time, the board could challenge Facebook's community standards and impact its ads and its algorithm. Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for The 1619 Project in the New York Times; a project that attempts to re-examine the legacy of slavery in the United States. She explains how journalist and civil rights leader Ida N. Wells became her source of inspiration and why today COVID-19 disproportionately affects African Americans. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to Richard Haass, author of "The World: A Brief Introduction," about why we as a world need to abandon rivalry and embrace cooperation if we are to solve not only the current pandemic but future crises such as climate change and terrorism. He reflects of the challenges of modern globalization and the tensions between the U.S. and China. And finally – Anya Hindmarch handbag and accessories Designer has turned her talents to help the NHS. She describes her “holdster” design for frontline health workers so they can carry personal items whilst saving lives. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	It doesn't hurt people. It's been out on the market for 60 or 65 years for malaria,
0:14.6	lupus and other things.
0:16.0	In a pandemic bad information can mean the difference between life and death.
0:20.5	Can Facebook's new oversight board help staunch the flow? I ask its co-chair
0:25.6	Hellethorning Schmidt. Then... In August 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon
0:32.1	near Point Comfort, Virginia.
0:34.0	It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans who were sold to the colonists.
0:39.0	Slavery, it is America's original sin, and the impact is still being felt in the coronavirus pandemic
0:46.3	16-19 Project Creator Nicole Hannah Jones follows the thread and later foreign policy guru Richard Haas explains it all in his new book
0:56.0	The World a brief introduction and the handbag designer kitting out British medical workers. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore working from home in London.
1:22.0	In the face of this determined virus
1:24.4	when facts have never mattered more, a tsunami of rumors, hoaxes, and
1:29.3	conspiracy theories swamp social media and even make their way to presidential podiums.
1:35.4	Which is why regulators here in Europe are demanding detailed information from tech giants on how
1:41.2	they are tackling the torrent of misinformation.
1:45.1	With the spectra of government regulation looming, Facebook just announced a major new
1:50.3	initiative to police itself.
1:52.4	It's an independent oversight board to
1:54.5	moderate the company's complicated and significant content decisions and it's
1:59.4	backed by a 130 million dollar trust fund to guarantee its freedom and it's starved with a diverse array
2:06.4	of legal authorities free speech advocates, journalists and a Nobel laureate from 27 countries
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