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peter: google has pledged 12 million euros in ad grants from public health campaigns.his means local authorities can use ads for free to inform the public about covid-19. others have pledged breathing machines to be sent over from singapore to hospitals in india. the chinese electronics giant show me has also -- xiaomi has also pledged oxygen concentrators. julia: i.t. companies have had to create warm rooms. what are those about -- war rooms? peter: many workers are taking time off to care for their relatives or getting sick, and that means many companies have had to set up war rooms. these are people manning the phones and computers to make sure that their sick staff of hospital beds or oxygen or medicine where available, but also to figure out how to maintain their services for their clients who includes many of the world's biggest financial firms. so with the shortage of staff that is going on, it is no wonder that teams are having to work 13-14 hours a day, a lot of them working from home. julia: thank you very much, peter. now to another story in china. big data

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peter: give us an example of some of the partners? adam: big companies like google and amazon. o audio] peter: ashley gold is our guest this week. ashley: thanks for having me in good to see you again. i want to ask you about something you just said about former president trump bringing tech into the culture wars. how much of text current problems with the antitrust scrutiny and conservative content moderation do you think is a direct result of tech being brought onto the culture wars in the last four years in a way they have not and the last administration? adam: what you see on the republican side is a concern primarily about tech companies allegedly censoring conservative speech, that has motivated, by the way, a whole slew of state bills from states like texas and florida that would crackdown on services ability to moderate content. i think democrats have a whole different host of concerns, which is really primarily about the power of the tech industry and how the tech industry is basically utilizing its power , and is it operating fairly towards workers? you see this in lab

peter: ashley gold, how big are the lobbying operations of some of the social media companies, like facebook and googleve they increased over the years? what kind of operations do they have here in washington? ashley: yeah, so in general, they have pretty robust operations in washington that have only gotten bigger. the only companies that actually decreased -- the only company that actually decreased its lobbying spend in the past couple of quarters is google. and that is because they were focusing for a while on some of the cases that were going on in europe last year. however, expect them to write up spending again in the biden administration. -- expect them to ramp up spending again in the biden administration. facebook has steadily been spending more on lobbying every quarter. they spent millions and millions. these are pretty robust efforts. and now that the biden administration is in power, we're seeing a bit of a shift towards more democrats being in top positions of power at these companies. under the trump administration, there were still some pretty powerful democrats, but there's definitely

about itself the the changes but concerned about the next google and i got a bridge if you can believe that but here's what i would like to say, peter in closing. these remedies are worth exploring but what i really would like to see happen is have really a change in our constitutional culture and what i mean by that, peter, is even though the first amendment per se does not apply to these platforms they all proclaimed that they are in favor of free expression and free speech. you know, i think again if we are on there really has been a leftward bias among the major platforms and that troubles me and i think if enough people and i think will perhaps would join me in this but, you know, if enough people just start speaking out and being clear then we have to be concerned about the diminishment of this public space and the diminishment of the public square and that it is wrong and that ultimately it is not good for american democracy. if we start speaking more clearly about that and expressing that concern may be that will possibly help change the culture and that would be an important step to take so i hope we can do that. >> host: w

not like google existed with the book in 1989 i expect warren buffet but i'm always going to be a peter lynch guy even though he made money running mute ual funds, thanks o the .com bust, the peter lynch method lost a lot and didn't help the industry was against owning individual stocks with warren buffet leading the way. in the '90s, the conventional wisdom said picking stocks is a great way to make money. anyone with half a brain knows you're supposed to put your money in a nice, low cost index fund but you know where the truth is the truth lies somewhere in between. if you don't like to put that much time and effort into your portfolio, parking your money in an index fund is the way to go the pushers got too far when they tell you stock picking is a waste of time and money. yeah, that's it. you can get better performance by picking individual stocks, the problem is you got to do% more work. that's why i believe in a hybrid model. i don't share buffet's content for home gamers to pick stocks nor do i want you to go all in individual stocks. that's why i suggested you put your retireme