Friday, April 06, 2018

"Everybody is mad at Facebook, but no one can agree on what the problem is!"

For some reason the top story of the day was President Trump's decision to avoid attending the White House Correspondents dinner scheduled for later this month. Pete Hegseth accurately describes Trump as a "see something, say something" president. He sees something like the caravan of illegal immigrants coming to our southern border and says "We can't have it!" Then the press picks him apart! Kimberlee agrees and cites examples of how unfair the press has been to Trump. Lisa Booth hopes Trump will do what he did last year: hold a rally at the same time as the dinner in which he makes clear that he knows who he is there to serve.

Juan Williams jumps on Kimberlee's criticism of press bias by asking, "You mean Ann Coulter?" Juan's point is that Trump has also been getting criticized by some on the right. Greg agreed with Trump's decision to stay away from a dinner where people are going to insult him for two hours.

Dana Perino is out west interviewing Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. Dana found in her preparation for the interview that "everybody is mad at Facebook, but no one can agree on what the problem is!" Zuckerberg will face tough questionning next Tuesday and Wednesday before House and Senate committees.

Men are reluctant to hire women, for fear of the #MeToo movement (being accused of sexual harassment). Pete asked Dana if Facebook is aware of how conservatives feel about their bias toward left-leaning publications. Dana says they are, and expects some conservative Congressmen to suggest an Algorithm Review Board to give smaller news sources more of a chance to be heard. Greg thinks Facebook is a Frankenstein monster, too big, with no solution to the privacy problems, too late to fix it. Two billion people use Facebook! Dana said they plan to hire ten thousand human beings to try to cut down on fake news. Dana thinks there will be members of Congress who will ask, is this business too big? Should it be broken up? Dana asks, "What about consumer responsibility?"

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