Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a week in which the US president, Donald Trump, was suspended from his social media accounts and the social network Parler was taken offline. On Business Weekly, we explore the role these companies have in society and whether they facilitate free speech and cohesion, as they claim. Plus, the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt speaks to Tesla founder Elon Musk about money, electric cars and populating other planets. And it probably feels like a lifetime ago that any of us went to a cinema to watch a film, popcorn in hand. Will they ever return? Our reporter Vincent Dowd hears from the world's most northerly movie theatre about its struggles during the pandemic. And should you do what you love, or love what you do? We speak to pianist who ditched his passion to become an accountant. Business Weekly is produced by Matthew Davies and presented by Vishala Sri-Pathma.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Business Weekly and I'm Vishalos Rupathma. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:09.8 | President Donald Trump has made history this week as the first US president to be impeached twice |
| 0:16.4 | after he was accused of inciting a violent mob to storm the capital building. |
| 0:21.9 | Here on Business Weekly, we examine the decision by social media giants, Twitter and Facebook |
| 0:26.7 | to suspend Mr Trump's accounts on their sites |
| 0:30.0 | and take a closer look at the removal of social network parlour, |
| 0:34.2 | a platform used by many of the US President's supporters. |
| 0:37.8 | Are these companies silencing the opinions and views of millions simply because they don't agree with them? |
| 0:44.4 | Also on the show, Tesla founder Elon Musk is battling it out with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to become the world's richest man. |
| 0:52.8 | The BBC's Justin Rowlatt sat down with Mr Musk to discuss electric cars and wealth. |
| 0:58.5 | And will the big screen return? |
| 1:01.1 | I for one miss the opportunity to purchase overpriced popcorn to watch motion picture in mesmeric quality. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm very sure that many of you do too. Our correspondent Vincent |
| 1:12.7 | Dowd finds out if cinemas will live to see another day. But first, those violent scenes |
| 1:18.8 | in the US Capitol building continues to have an impact on social media companies with Donald |
| 1:24.4 | Trump thrown off Twitter and Facebook, and another social network, |
| 1:28.5 | Parlor, used by many of his supporters, going offline. |
| 1:32.2 | Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump's account over concerns about further incitement |
| 1:37.1 | to violence. The president says it's suppressing freedom of speech. |
| 1:43.9 | It has been an unusually quiet day here at the White House, and that's partly because |
| 1:48.3 | we have not heard from President Trump on Twitter. |
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