Good morning everyone. In morning, everyone. The subcommittee on Consumer Protection and congress commerce, wilbur come to order. We will begin with member statements and i will begin by recognizing myself for five minutes. Good morning, and thank you for joining us here today. Given whats going on in the world, its really impressive to see the turnout that is here today and i welcome everyone. In the two plus decades since the creation of the internet, we have seen life for americans and their families transformed in many positive ways. The internet provides new opportunities for commerce, education, information and connecting people. However, along with these many new opportunities, we have seen new challenges as well. Bad actors are stocking the online marketplace using deceptive techniques to influence consumers deceptive designed, to for them. Deceptive designs for them in the giving away, personal information, stealing their money and in gauging another unfair practices. The fede
Testifying on ways to counter the problem. Good morning everyone. In morning, everyone. The subcommittee on Consumer Protection and congress commerce, wilbur come to order. We will begin with member statements and i will begin by recognizing myself for five minutes. Good morning, and thank you for joining us here today. Given whats going on in the world, its really impressive to see the turnout that is here today and i welcome everyone. In the two plus decades since the creation of the internet, we have seen life for americans and their families transformed in many positive ways. The internet provides new opportunities for commerce, education, information and connecting people. However, along with these many new opportunities, we have seen new challenges as well. Bad actors are stocking the online marketplace using deceptive techniques to influence consumers deceptive designed, to for them. Deceptive designs for them in the giving away, personal information, stealing their money and in
This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Today, we will discuss with the technology is doing to remove violent and extremist tenth from their platform. This is a matter of serious important to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today, we representative on the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms, we hear from this Monika Bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook, and mr. Nick pickles, policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater, Global Policy director, and Senior Vice President of program for the anti defamation league. Over the past two decades, the United States has led the world in the development of social media and other services to allow people to sites like google, facebook, and twitter, and platforms like instagram and twitter have ch
Hearing. The chair is roger wicker of mississippi. This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Today, we will discuss with the technology is doing to remove violent and extremist tenth from their platform. This is a matter of serious important to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today, we representative on the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms, we hear from this Monika Bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook, and mr. Nick pickles, policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater, Global Policy director, and Senior Vice President of program for the anti defamation league. Over the past two decades, the United States has led the world in the development of social media and other services to allow people to sites like google, facebook, and twitte
Welcome to our conversation with titled security versus security. We welcome Monika Bickert of producte head policy and counterterrorism at facebook. We are here to do a review of a new movie because no news has broken since then, in m onikas orbit. We met at the aspen security um, and my main focus was why no one ever puts likes or comments up when i post pictures. Will address some of the news of the day, but it want to do that at the end, because i want to make sure we spend a lot of time at the beginning talking about the great and incredible ika and facebook are doing in the counterterrorism space, which is the goal of this country goal of this company. The frame we wanted to lay out here is, i know many of you have likely been to panels in which it is titled, security versus liberty. Security versus privacy. And my view, shared by many others, sometimes that is in it is an inappropriate lenso view this debate. And i would suggest it is inappropriate for two reasons. One, it impli