I Don't Get No Relief
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Rent is due next week, but we still don’t have a new relief bill to extend federal unemployment assistance and eviction protections. Negotiations have stalled, with Senate Republicans, the White House, and Democrats far apart in negotiations.
Federal agents will withdraw from Portland after a deal was reached between Oregon’s governor and the Department of Homeland Security. When this will happen is unclear, but it’s clear that state troopers will replace them.
And in headlines: retail workers are left to enforce mask rules, Snapchat’s terrible diversity numbers, and Madonna’s bad IG post.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, July 30th. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what a day where we want all tech CEOs to know we're |
| 0:12.8 | developing an app that will make them obsolete. |
| 0:15.9 | Yeah, it's like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google rolled into one with a little bit |
| 0:21.0 | of NetScape Navigator. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, negotiations over the next relief bill continue and federal officials |
| 0:35.6 | agree to a deal to withdraw from Portland than some headlines. |
| 0:39.5 | But first, the latest. |
| 0:41.5 | Mr Zuckerberg, in 2015, Facebook reported high and quickly growing rates of video viewership |
| 0:49.2 | on its platform. |
| 0:50.2 | Based on these metrics, news publishers fired hundreds of journalists choosing instead |
| 0:55.5 | to boost their video divisions. |
| 0:58.0 | In 2018, it was discovered that Facebook had inflated these metrics. |
| 1:02.4 | And it known about the inaccuracies several years before Facebook publicly disclosed this. |
| 1:07.5 | Mr Zuckerberg, did you know that these metrics were inflated before they were publicly released? |
| 1:15.2 | Congressman, no, I did not. |
| 1:17.1 | And we regret that mistake and have put in place a number of other measures since then |
| 1:23.0 | to make sure that we realize and you realize the harm that this cause journalism |
| 1:28.4 | across the country. |
| 1:30.9 | Congressman, I certainly know how important it is that the metrics that we report are |
| 1:36.0 | accurate. |
| 1:37.0 | That was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg taking questions from Congressman Gerald Nadler |
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