The very ne day i want to say that i recognize the challenging position that social Media Companies are in. Your platform host more t the world vws to stay informed, so youre on the frontine of both domestic and foreign disinformation campaigns, and you have to balance american ideals like freedom of speh, ou have to eliminam limit hate you have to limit meaningless information. Thats a significant challee. I saw one of the people w came hereo demonstrate last weekend in washington saying theyre there because they found out that china had, e minute before th polls closed, dumped llions of votes for joe biden. Somebody sa, well, what do you mean . They said, ell, it was on the internet. Its got to be curate. But now your platforms have taken some positive eps. I mentioned that one thing and i heard that people are tang seriously some of this misinformation, sometimes dangerous misinformation, theyve gotten it from your platforms. I often think you can and mus dobetter. Our security, i t
Sen. Graham i think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Is it ok if we move forward . Sen. Blumenthal absolutely. Sen. Graham this is about censorship and suppression of the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when it comes to twitter and facebook about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them, can we do better, chemically do we need to do better . The first thing i want to talk about here is health risk associated with social media. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly and 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram, or snapchat. If so why are we having this hearing . The products that these two companies offer, people like and they use. So the bottom line is theyve probably been more successful than their wildest dreams, and theyre having to make decisions that offend people on the left and the right. And what were trying to do is look at section 230 an
Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and the 2020 election, sort of a deep dive, when it comes to twitter and facebook, about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them. Can we do better . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk about here is Health Risks Associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly. A 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram or snapchat. So why are we having this hearing . The products that these two Companies Offer people like and they use. So the bottom line is, theyve probably been more successful than their wildest dreams. And theyre having to make decisions that offend people on the le
In egypt they started doingit. They got an elected government and then the same people, many but not all, the same numbers of people who had gone to the streets the first time went back into the streets and asked the army to come in but this time they werent asking the army to take away an undemocratic government,they were asking the army to take away a government that had been elected so the army did and the accomplishment was the end of democracy for at least a generation. Thats an autonomous act of a collective people, i argue, against democracy. To say we tried it, it didnt work, we dont like it. And thats another thing, we think democracy is that people put themselves in power and the people want to stay in power but thats not always true. People can put themselves in power and take themselves out of powerand thats what happens , i know thats a controversial claim but im curious to hear your thoughts about the mismatch question. Why it was that people didnt talk about democracy in
Good afternoon everyone. Here we are. When we invited you to this meeting, we were going to be talking about three things. Testing, testing, testing. Testing to open up our economy, testing to send our kids back to school. And testing, the coronavirus. What little did we know that we would be coming here almost at the exact time when her country would be registering 100,000 people dying from the coronavirus. 100,000 people. In about a hundred days. Think back 100 days. Think back to president s weekend. Would you have ever thought that we would be observing 100,000 people. So im honored to be here. A distinguished chair, energy and commerce committee. He is about saving lives prayed and testing, they have seen outstanding horses in the congress on the subject. Were also going to be joined by a man of illinois who is the chair of the Congressional Health franchise. And grace in new york and the leader of house of representatives. Another member of the appropriations committee. And deb h