,breaking news,breaking news video,congress,conversation,democracy in america,government,interview,live speeches,live updates,live video,polarization,politics,press conference,public,real time coverage,senate,trust,video updates,washington post,washington post live,oiTUlO2HUlo,, Politics,Society, channel_UCt_SXDdK6qBv4FfJ8DybxKg, video_oiTUlO2HUlo,America’s political system is facing unique pressure points amidst declining trust in institutions, rising polarization in Congress and threats against public officials. On Thursday, Sept. 28 at 11:00 a.m. ET, political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt and historians Carol Anderson and Nicole Hemmer join Washington Post Live to discuss the state and future of American democracy.
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,1,“Tackling climate change is no longer just a matter of doing the right thing. It's a matter of ensuring the permanence and competitiveness of companies over time." - Jimena Marván
,1,“There are a lot of parallels … This is a book not so much about social media, it’s about opaque technological systems … For most of the 20th century, we had an industrial system that was largely inspectable … The thing about our modern times—and a lot of these AI’s fall right in this bucket—we can’t inspect them. It introduces a real power imbalance when the only people who get to ‘grade the homework’ of these companies, are the companies themselves … That’s a problem because as we saw with social media, companies cut corners … I think we need a consumer bill of rights.” - Frances Haugen
,1,“We need to demand that guardrails have been put in place by the social media platforms because if we have a virus of lies in our information ecosystem, we all get infected.” – Maria Ressa
