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For years now theres been one senator who, in my opinion, has been in a league of her own trying to understand at a granular level what impact social media is having on our world and our politics and what our politics may have to do to contend with it. to put it in context, senator amy klobuchar introduced or cosponsored nearly double the number of bills on tech regulation as any of her competitors in 2020 democratic presidential primary. her bills covered data issues, provety, monopolies and th...

Literally as we found out are putting profits in front of people that its a home profit model. collecting data on you. targeting you with ads. and lo and behold, more suicidal thoughts on behalf of these young girls. targeting really bad information when it comes to eating disorders. to kids. and i think that this is the moment that we needed, because what can we do privacy legislation a complete change in our economy in the last decade. no change to federal privacy legislation. we need to do so...

And competitors, how the company does choose algorithms that are proprietary and competitive to them. this is researchers being able to see how companies function, like facebook, and theyre able to spread harmful content. so i do think its a level of conversation that is substantial and gets much more to the heart of the problems that facebook poses. so that felt very new to me and encouraging, frankly. >> the book is "an ugly truth, inside facebooks battle for domination." cecelia kang, thank y...

On a taiwan agreement. it appears that joe biden is referring to the one-china policy, the long-standing policy in place where washington, d.c., officially recognizes beijing over taipei. its also not clear if joe biden was reacting to a recent new phone call with the chinese president, or if he was referring to the 90-minute phone call he had with xi jinping in september. isa. >> im sure well know more, much more a bit later. kristie lu stout, thank you, ladies. great to see you both. now we ...

They basically bought out a bunch of people in this town, they throw a lot of money around and now is the time to act. no federal privacy laws for over a decade. no updates. no updates when it comes to our competition policy. we should be as sophisticated as these companies in how we approach them. so what i hope is that my colleagues will join us, those of us, senator blumenthal, senator blackburn, myself, senator grassley, who are willing to take this on. and we need to move forward. >> well s...

Senator grassley, who are willing to take this on. and we need to move forward. >> well see what happens. im not sure. do you think that could happen in a divided congress? >> its not just about divides on this issue. its about a whole lot of people that are listening to a whole lot of lobbyists instead of listening to that whistleblower. and the time has come for action. we can have more hearings. we can do more investigations. but i think the house investigation made it clear these are dominan...

Competitors and that we finally put a privacy law and some algorithm transparency in place. this is a lot on our agenda but if we dont do this were literally letting believing them when they say trust us. do you? >> thank you very much. >> thank you, don. >> ill let the viewers answer that. thank you very much, senator klobuchar. i appreciate it. so brian laundries sisters saying she has no idea where her brother is but is urging him to come forward. as for gabby petitos parents, they say hes ...

Because heres the part that really needs to stand out. this isnt about demonizing them or an industry or any company. this is about understanding the competitive advantage that is right in front of all of us. the last time we saw a facebook whistleblower testify before congress, and thats another thing, the whistleblower. we have had them before. remember cambridge analytica. a few months after this guy, pew research found that 44% of young users deleted facebook from their phones. legislation, ...

This stuff. actual crimes being ignored, yeah, it is, at scale. one example, prosecutors in chicago rejected charges against five men from a shootout and sent one to the hospital. but no big deal because prosecutors in chicago said they were "mutual competitors." gang members shooting each other are not really our concern. the guy died. last week, prosecutors in chicago announced they wouldnt pursue murder charges because a teenager who was stabbed to death was engaging in, they said, "mutual co...

Targeting you with ads. and lo and behold, more suicidal thoughts on behalf of these young girls, targeting really bad information when it comes to eating disorders to kids. and i think this is the moment that we need it because what can we do? privacy legislation. a complete change in our economy over the last decade, no change to federal privacy legislation. we need to do something about our competition policy, ali. that is what ive been advocating for, so these dominate platforms cant decide ...