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The Week in 60 Minutes: Big Tech's supremacy and Covid's origins

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Peter Greenberger, former head of political advertising at Google and Twitter; Francis Balloux, director of UCL's Genetics Institute; Anshel Pfeffer, a correspondent at The Economist; and a team of Spectator journalists.

We discuss whether Twitter was right to ban Trump, what we know about the Brazilian Covid strain, and how Israel has vaccinated so many people.

To watch the show, go to www.spectator.co.uk/tv.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the week in 60 Minutes from Spectator TV.

0:15.0

Silicon Valley has established itself as the biggest player in American politics in the wake of last week's

0:22.6

Capitol Hill riot. So we'll explore the power of the big tech yields in the age of social media.

0:29.6

We'll speak to Professor Francois Ballou, a geneticist at University College London, who can shed light

0:36.6

on the new strains of SARS-CoV-2 and the origins

0:40.2

of the virus, particularly timely this week as the HOOS investigators arrive in China.

0:46.7

And on the rollout of vaccines, we will turn to Israeli journalist and Shal Feffer to break down

0:53.0

exactly how Israel has seemingly done so well,

0:56.6

and what it means for Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election prospects. And of course, we'll have

1:03.0

our usual spectator TV hit with our political editors, James Forsyfe and Katie Balls, on hand

1:10.3

to update us on the latest from Westminster.

1:13.6

Now remember, if you subscribe to the Spectator's YouTube channel for free, you'll never miss another episode.

1:21.6

Just click the subscribe button at the bottom right off the screen now. A very special thanks to Charles

1:30.1

Stanley for their continued support of the week in 60 minutes. Charles Stanley is one of the

1:36.7

UK's leading wealth management firms, one of the oldest companies on London Stock Exchange.

1:42.5

We're delighted to be partners.

1:45.3

Now, it's been just over a week since the storming of Capitol Hill by pro-Trump mob.

1:53.8

What a week it's been.

1:55.3

President Trump has been impeached for the second time.

1:58.4

That's the first for any city president.

2:00.1

But Twitter, YouTube,

2:01.7

and Facebook have all suspended his accounts. Many of his followers then moved to Parlor,

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