steve clemens, the host of al jazeera is the bottom line. i think he moving on now in some staff members at twitter say they've already been locked out of their work. email accounts. as a mass lay off is underway at the company. they believe in a long mask acquired the social media platform last week. now the companies are facing a class action lawsuit from some former employees who say they were not given enough notice under federal law that they lost their jobs. about 7500 people work for the company based in san francisco. musk has indicated he may fire around half the work for chris stock. walker is a technology journalist based in the u. k. he says, mosque is clearly making drastic changes to the platform. well, twitter has never necessarily been a particularly well run company. it often be losing money and ill on must cause by all accounts over paid for what he's all $3.00. he bought it for $44000000000.00 at $54.20 a share at the time that he made that offer. it was a significant increase on what the share price was being traded up. s

steve clemens as host the found as there is the bottom line. he says, the latest poles and not in the democrats favor. we have lots of indications that it's not going to be a good night for president biden. there's a lot of concern and you can see it in the posture of democrats in the white house, as they're scrambling around the country to places that were considered safe per democrats. and we've seen in polls and increasing rise in republican support around the country of people that are worried about inflation, worried about crime, worried about the jobs and economy. as the democrats have had other issues that they have talked about. but right now it's looking troublesome for president biden . is historically, it is true that, that particular in the house of representatives that when, when a president holds both chambers of congress, as the democrats hold, the white house, the senate, and the house right now. that historically, what they call the mid term elections, those elections for just about everything except the president. that at that

those are the headlines. news continues here now does. thereafter, the bottom line ah hi, i'm steve clemens and i have a question. how much does social media companies know about you? and how easy is it to manipulate you or me, or a whole country? let's get to the bottom line. ah, unless you've been living totally off the grid, which means you'd never see this show, you know that your mobile phone is spying on you. it's telling private companies and governments where you've been, who you've met, what you've bought and what you think. all those free apps that we use in love, ever wonder how they're free. maybe it's because you're the one being bought and sold. we pay by giving up our personal data and our privacy. and in return we get a service. usually our data is used to try to sell us stuff that we may be interested in based on our personalities and our preferences. but how about when things take a darker turn and our behavior is predicted? how about tools that can manipulate our behavior, or even what we believe? how about companies that work to turn up the intensity of hate in society?

steve clemens familiar faced host of the al jazeera, the bottom line. fabulous. so you should watch his us as the executive editor of 74, because he doesn't have enough jobs. and james davis, he's a republican strategist. okay. grassley. we say we're just our senator grassley. that one i was watching, paying close attention to because iowa right now is in this place, we're abortion is being battled the courts and, and in kansas, we saw abortion. it just, it energized women to come to the polls. so abortion is on the ballot with grassley because the republicans have said they will try to make a national band what, what, what half and audio we're up. i know you said women could walk if you go at the same time, but this is a state words quite possible abortion rights will be taken away if this is possible and not entirely unexpected. right. but just because grass lee has won this race that, that me minutes. i think it's a foregone conclusion. that abortion rights and reproductive health is off the table. there are activists in the state who are working to really ele

the bottom line with steve clemens is next. ah hi, i'm steve clements and i have a question which just a few days left before the mid term elections. will americans decide to punish the democrats or the republicans? let's get to the bottom line. ah. every 2 years americans get their chance to clean up all 435 elected members of congress and start all over again. but most of the time, they just reelect the same folks, but some races. well, they're genuinely competitive. and every cycle bring some fresh bases. what could really shake things up though next week is the party that controls the most seats in the house of representatives. 2 years ago at lean democrat, this time most polls are pointing to a republican red wave taking over the senate. well, that's been evenly split and both parties are working hard to flip a handful of seats in their favor. even flipping one seat for either party makes a huge difference for president biden. well, it's sort of a referendum on his popularity, which is not so hot right now. if his party los

bottom line is back next to asking if we've reached the end of the walk movement or by ah hi, of steve clemens and i have a question. is the woke agenda on the declined in america? let's get to the bottom line. ah, while the democrats pat themselves on the back for doing better than they thought they would in the elections earlier this month, an interesting trend is emerging, both conservative and liberal. americans move to the center and they rejected hardliners. of course there's some exceptions here and there, but political demands like defend the police that were once popular after the murder of george floyd by a white policeman in minnesota 2 years ago. well, they really weren't on the agenda at all this cycle. so what's the future of identity politics of social justice, critical race theory, things like climate. absolutism, language policing, and cancelling people will woke ism take a back seat in the democratic party from now on as it tries to reach for norm ease in the middle. has the pendulum swung the other way, especially now that the big 2024 election is fast approaching? today we'

and i'm also joined by steve clemens familiar face. he's the host of al jazeera, the bottom line, and the executive editor of 74, and nadia brown, professor of government at georgetown university here in washington. so things are coming in. the polls were very specific, the polls basically said we have no idea how it's going to go, because everything's in the margin of error. let me ask you, jennifer, do trust the polls anymore? because they don't. we can't do exit, polling from the polling place because everybody now votes a lot. so many people vote in drop off dropboxes. and so many people answer their cell phone. if it's the number that i would get. so are the polls right? do you think, is it going to be this close? you know, we have definitely move beyond the golden age of pulling, and it's much harder to get good samples and to get good data than it used to be back when people answer their phones and so forth. but on the other hand, pulling is not designed to give us absolute confidence and certainty about what outcomes are going