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Social media hearing is heating up. adam schiff is talking right now. lets listen. >> content that is either fear based oran anger based that hel it pick up an audience and go viral. manipulation but also just in terms of the agree to which these algorithms designed to attract our attention and keep our eyes focused on platform for advertising purposes may also have the unintended consequence of widening divisions among our society, polarizing people because what ends up perk latding the top of ...

>> ill start, we obviously take both of these issues very seriously. youll hear throughout our conversation today that our focus while we do look at content and have rules that talk about content when it turns violent and behavior and twitter turns violent. we have the greatest successes in protecting our users and platform when we look at behavior and the information we see behind twitter accounts. we talk about things like ought mated malicious accounts. what weve seen especially in this inves...

Users and primarily driven by friends and family. thats the core use case of facebook, we want you to come to facebook and see information thats important to you, typically thats the information thats important to your friends and family. and now in a political election season, often times whats important to you friends and family are challenging provocative social issues and you will see that. our responsibility is to make sure when you see that content, its authentic so you can trust the dialo...

A democracy maybe here at home going through an election. here with us to talk about this is clint watts. when you hear these facebook executives and google executives, twitter executives trying to make sense of their response do you have trust they are doing everything they can? ach all, it took them so long to get to this point. im remembering mark zuckerberg saying theres no way this influenced the election. >> we dont know how many saw the stuff. facebook has the best understanding of it of ...