There's a spotlight on Facebook as the social media giant reports earnings Wednesday. The company faces increasing scrutiny over fake news on its platform. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue explains the lessons he thinks Facebook needs to learn from journalism.
"When you are building algorithms that are responsible for informing entire populations, the whole society of people you want to make sure you are applying basic journalistic principles, " said McCue. The five lessons McCue says algorithms must learn from journalism include truth and accuracy, independence, fairness and impartiality, humanity, and accountability.
Facebook recently updated its algorithm to prioritize friends and family over media publishers. McCue says Facebook's algorithms should be controlled by journalists.
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Geraldine Barnuevo, , environmental strategies and sustainability senior manager at GM, spoke to Cheddar about what's in store for the automaker following its big pledge to go carbon neutral by 2040.
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Christopher Kardatzke, the chief technology officer for Quiver Quantitative, joined Cheddar to discuss how hedge funds have started inquiring about its data-scraping tech in the wake of the GameStop short squeeze.
The wave of small investors who have ballooned the price of GameStop stock in an unprecedented short squeeze are calling on each other to hold their positions even as trading platforms freeze additional sales.
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Robinhood and other online trading platforms are moving to restrict trading in GameStop and other stocks that have soared recently due to rabid buying by smaller investors.
John Banovetz, chief technology officer at 3M, spoke with Cheddar about how we can better prepare for future pandemics based on lessons learned from COVID.
Michael Ellison, CEO and co-founder of CodePath, spoke to Cheddar about the need for Big Tech to invest earlier in the worker pipeline to improve diversity among their ranks.
General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that.
