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Hillsdale College President Explains Why Campus Will Be Open This Fall

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Hillsdale College will be one of the only colleges, if not the only college, this year planning to hold an in-person commencement ceremony for its graduates. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College and a trustee of The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal podcast today to discuss why the college has chosen to take this stand. He also talks about why Hillsdale College plans to be welcoming students back in the fall, Generation Z, and more. Listen to the podcast, or read the lightly edited transcript below. We also cover these stories: The Justice Department is investigating “unmasking” that occurred before and after the 2016 election. Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, says social media platforms should not be arbiters of truth.  President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday about 100,000 people who have died in the United States due to the coronavirus.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, May 29th. I'm Virginia Allen.

0:10.0

And I'm Rachel Del Judas. It's safe to say that Hillsdale College will be one of the only,

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if not the only, college this year,

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planning to hold an in-person commencement ceremony

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for its graduates.

0:22.0

Larry Arn, President of Hillsdale College, who has also been on the board of the Heritage Foundation since 2002,

0:29.0

joins me on the Daily Signal Podcast today to discuss why the college has chosen to take this stand.

0:36.0

Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating on Apple

0:41.7

Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.

0:44.1

Now, under our top news.

0:45.8

On Thursday, President Trump announced an executive order affecting social media platforms.

0:58.8

The order comes after Trump aired frustration on Twitter after the social media company flagged one of his

1:04.4

tweets about voting with a fact check label with a message reading, get the facts

1:09.8

about mail and ballots, pointing to an article from Twitter headlined,

1:14.7

Shrunk makes unsubstantiated claim that mail and ballots will lead to voter fraud.

1:20.2

Twitter told NBC that Trump's tweets

1:22.6

contain potentially misleading information about voting processes

1:26.6

and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail and ballots,

1:31.0

and that Twitter in May started a policy to control misinformation

1:35.3

specifically when it pertains to coronavirus.

1:38.0

Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, says social media platforms should not be arbiters of truth.

1:46.0

Quote, I don't think that Facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth.

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