Vaccine Bottlenecks with Pfizer CEO; Big Tech’s Path Forward with Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Leaders in Washington and on Wall Street are grappling with conservative allegiances as lawmakers approach a vote on impeachment and corporate America cuts off donations to lawmakers who opposed the 2020 Presidential Election results. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie discusses the fundamentals of big tech regulation and responsibility with Twitter’s former Global Chair of News and former President and CEO of NPR, Vivian Schiller. Plus, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla joins CNBC’s Meg Tirrell to discuss coronavirus vaccine bottlenecks across the country.

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0:00.0	This is
0:02.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. M.C. producer Katie Kramer today on our podcast.
0:07.0	President Trump facing impeachment charges once again.
0:10.0	Washington is facing a security crisis and a political crisis at the same time.
0:15.0	Big tech under pressure for cracking down on the President's language online?
0:18.0	Is it too little, too late?
0:20.0	Chris Wiley, who blew the whistle on Facebook's user data scandal.
0:23.8	I think one of the things that we're seeing is what happens when a company does not do due
0:29.0	diligence on its own products prior to release.
0:32.4	Algorithms play in a really big role. its own products prior to release.
0:32.6	Algorithms play in a really big role
0:34.9	in spreading this problematic content.
0:37.2	And former Twitter News Executive Vivian Schiller.
0:40.1	We are in a moment of national crisis. There are people who are using these platforms right now
0:46.3	to organize an armed insurrection. This is a national emergency.
0:51.0	Pfizer CEO Albert Borla on COVID complications.
0:54.4	The main bottleneck right now it is to make sure that we ramp up our
0:58.2	operations so that you can administer more vaccines.
1:00.8	In meeting vaccine demand.
1:02.8	We will now very confident that we will increase dramatically our production for this year,
1:07.9	up to 2 billion doses.
1:09.9	It's Tuesday January 12, 2021.
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