I saw last night where the president said barack obama started this border policy and im correcting it. And what they did and this is what i want you to consider, what one of the tv networks did is put out people making statements about what was happening. They showed Jeff Sessions when he first announced the separation policy at the border. Problem, as churchill said, alike and travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes. That is true. If we started a new bible, that should be one of the scriptures. Because its a fact. And the truth cannot always be uncontaminated with sprinkles of deceit. So you have a tough job. I dont want to make it seem like it is something you can do easily. Our system of government, beyond , it, our moral connections spent three and a half years in the seminary and didnt realize this until recently, but we depend significantly on shame. There are some things laws cant touch, and our society functions on shame. So when shame is dismembered, im not sure what else we have left. Like for you to react to and maybe consider is, instead of taking something down in some interest as in some instances, why not just put up the truth next to it . The truth. Im not talking about somebody elses response. Im talking about the truth. Where, i wish i had brought it to you, they say, here is the lie and here is the truth. Anybody else . This is a this is a very important issue, congressman. What we are doing is twofold regarding misinformation. One is where there is a video that, lets say, the moon landing didnt happen. Or the earth is flat. Youvideo may be up, but will see a box underneath that says, here is a link to the Wikipedia Page or the encyclopaedia britannica page where you can learn more. Representative you do that now . We do that today, yes, sir. The other thing we do is reduce the frequency of recommendations to information that might be harmful, such as those sorts of conspiracies. You write about interplay on what is between social media companies, the news media and how that cycle of information works together. Its a critical part of solving this. Twitter, because we are a public platform, very frequently people are able to challenge, expose, say that is not true, here is the evidence, heres the data, theres something incredibly important about these conversations taking place in public. And as we move into the information century, that is something we need to bear in mind. We actually, if there is misinformation a thirdparty organization has debunked, and we work with 45 worldwide that are all certified, we take articles from those Fact Checkers and put it right next to the content so people have that context. And if you share that content, we say this content has been rated false by a fact checker and we link to it. Similarly, when it comes to misinformation about things like vaccines, we work with the cdc and World Health Organization to get content from them that we can put next team to vaccine put next toe can vaccine related misinformation on our site. Another thing we are trying to do is empower those who have the best voices to reach the right audience. We invest heavily in promoting counter speech and truthful speech. Before we close, i would like to insert into the record a number of documents. The first is letters from stakeholders addressed to twitter and youtube and facebook about hateful content on their platforms. The second is a joint report from the center of European Studies on the counter extremism project. The third is a statement for the record from the antidefamation league. The fourth are copies of Community Standards for facebook, twitter and google. Without objection. So ordered. I thank the witnesses for their valuable testimony, and members for their questions. Facebook, you are 30 hours late with your testimony. Staff took note of it, and for a company of your size, that was just not acceptable for the committee. I want the record to reflect that. The committee record will be kept open for 10 days. Hearing no further business, the committee stands adjourned. [gavel striking block] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] after the g 20 summit wraps up this weekend in japan, President Trump will he hold a News Conference before heading to south korea. Live coverage at two 25 eastern saturday here on cspan, follow our coverage online at cspan. Org and listen with the free, cspan radio app. This weekend American History tv marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire, an event that shed light on Water Pollution and helped create the clean water act. Sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, historian David Stradling joins us live from along the river in cleveland take your calls and talk about the fire, myths associated with it, and the mayors efforts to find solutions. Live sunday at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. White male and i am prejudiced. Its not something i was talk but it is something that i was taught, but it is it is not something that i was taught, but it is something that i learned. What can i do to change to be a better american . Its something most of us wont admit, i am prejudiced. Our guest talks about that interaction and her followup with the guest. We had this raciallycharged summer, Donald Trumps campaign, black lives matter, the Police Shootings and the tragic events in baton rouge and dallas. It was really a time when people felt like, all they were seeing about race was bad news. And here was a white man admitting that he was prejudiced, which for people of color, we just thought, finally. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q and a. Former president jimmy carter and Vice President walter back and his former Vice PresidentWalter Mondale were critical of president Donald Trumps record on civil rights. We also hear from jimmy carters grandson, jason carter. [applause] moderator it is my great honor to introduce this remarkable at theon a topic that is core of everything the Carter Center does, the northstar of this organization forever will be human rights because that has been the northstar for my grandparents forever and ever. To do that. Ed many of these people have been introduced to you before. Im going to use a prop to introduce my grandfather in a unique way for the first time ever. [laughter] i would like to introduce you to jonathans great grandfather. [applause] , on up, buddy. On up, buddy. That is the easiest applause line of the whole day. [laughter] poppa, weiousness, are all thrilled that you are here. We are excited you have devoted your life to human rights. And all of us are doing our very thatto ensure that incredible, incredible legacy on this particular issue is preserved forever. So thank you very much and welcome to president carter. [applause] next, another person who needs no introduction is fritz mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States, served with my favorite president of all time, [laughter] morningcould see this at breakfast that the relationship that these two great leaders have is perhaps one that is unique in history. They are great friends, have an a normas amount of respect for each other, [applause] and the way that, the fact that they are getting to hang out today is a treat for both of them. So thank you very much for that. The Senior Advisor for human rights and special representative on women and girls at the Carter Center. She has been at the carter aspect that at the Carter Center since 1988, assisting on human rights issues. Human rights is the heart and soul of the Carter Center in all of its respects, and karen is the heart and soul of that human rights endeavor at the Carter Center throughout this time. So it is a giant treat to have karen here. We are also blessed to have john meacham, a pulitzer prizewinning biographer, professor to time vanderbilt university. Thererom chattanooga and is a border dispute between georgia and tennessee, but we are proud to say at least he is from north georgia. [laughter] you are obviously not running this year. I am not running in tennessee, that is for sure. He has embarked on a project, in addition to numerous books he has written. Last year he published a book called the soul of america the battle for our better angels and that project belongs in our group. Im going to introduce them to you, which is to say this is a group of people who share your desire to find out what it is and to remember what it is that our country is based on, and that soul is real. We believe the Carter Center has a special place there. My grandparents have been a part can intopeering as we the heart and soul of this country and the issue of human rights. We are going to have a panel discussion, but as an introduction there is a video we will show briefly that highlights the work of human rights defenders the Carter Center supports. The Carter Center has done its ony best to focus, not ideals only, but ideals as put into practice, and to support the people on the ground every day fighting the battles for human rights in their own communities. These examples are remarkable. You will hear more about them, but i will show the video briefly and then john meacham will direct the rest of the panel. There will be time for questions. Once we get there we will let them go for a while and then we will cut it off after we have too many questions. First the video, and thank you for being here. Im excited about the panel. [applause] [video presentation begins] [singing] swimwish i could like dolphins, like dolphins can swim though nothing will keep us ,ogether beat them forever and ever. Forever heroes, just for one day how we can be heroes, just for one day i would be king queenu, you would be though nothing will drive us away, heroes, just for one day how we can be heroes, just for one day i, i can remember standing, standing by the wall and the guns, shot above our heads and we kissed, as though nothing could fall othere shame was on the we can beat them, forever endeavor everrever and then we could to be heroes just for one day [applause] mr. Meacham thank you, all. As a tennessean, i am the diversity. [laughter] i appreciate it very much but i think we should all be honest that the only reason we are here is because of mrs. Carter. So thank you. [applause] i know its the only reason you got this far. I want to start with a little bit of whats happening right now. Im interested, mr. President in your views at whats happening at the u. S. Mexico border with family separation and your reaction to what we are seeing their what we are seeing there, and what you think ordinary americans can do about it. President carter every day, we send a graceful signal around the world that this is what the president and the United States government stands for. And that is torture and kidnapping of those children, separation from the parents and deprivation of those who are incarcerated and there are thousands of unknown children still incarcerated that has not been revealed by the government. So i think what ice is doing under the direct orders of the president is a disgrace to the United States, and i hope it will soon be ended, maybe not until the 2020 elections. Im not sure. Even before then, hopefully, i hope it will land as we change president s. Mr. Meacham it be basic political activism that you would advise people worried about it just to get in and change the president . President carter i think everyone in the United States should take the same position and for human rights, the numberone basic measurement of how governments are performing, that would be the best thing to do. So what we would do is apply human rights in the finest and most precise way we can, and as fulfilling as we can, to comply with the present to comply al declarationrs as if you apply the basic human is humanly possible. Rights standards to every instance that happens in diplomacy and everyday life, that would be the best thing for the United States to do and i hope all americans will take us up. Mr. Meacham what would a cartermondale administration, how would the administration have reacted to the murder by saudi arabia of Jamal Khashoggi . President carter i believe we would have demanded a complete accounting about how high up the orders came from. As you know, they sent about 15 people to the embassy where he was destined to be, scheduled to be, and apparently they killed him and cut them up in little pieces and buried him in an unknown place. And that could only have been done under the orders from some of the highest people in any government. I would demand an accounting for that. When i was president , we tried to put human rights as a measuring stick in every incidents. We didnt always succeed but , thats what our effort was. Mr. Meacham one more off the top of the news and then we will dive in. Russia has been proven to have interfered with one of our human rights which is the right of , free and fair elections. What is your reaction . How should we deal with that . President carter the president himself should condemn it, and admit that it happened, which 16 intelligence agencies of already agreed to. And there is dont doubt that the russians did interfere in the election. I think the interference, though not yet quantified, should be fully investigated and it would show that donald trump was not legitimately elected in the election in 2016. He was put into office because the russians interfered. On his behalf. Mr. Meacham you say President Trump is an illegitimate president . [laughter] president carter things that i said, i cant retract. [laughter] [applause] mr. Meacham having made news [laughter] lets talk about Eleanor Roosevelt. [laughter] which to me is news. Talk about your interest in human rights, given both your background in the segregated south and your International Experience in the navy, heading into your public career. President carter i grew up in a Little Village in georgia which had about 50 families, farm families. My family was the only one that was white. All the rest of them were africanamerican. Cell i grew up completely immersed in africanamerican culture, black culture. And i could see, as a little child even, that there was a great differentiation between white and black people. My mother was a registered nurse and never paid any attention to racial distinctions, she treated everyone the same. She was part of the medical planes,hment in georgia, was very powerful so , she was impervious to this. I grew up in that environment and later, i became chairman of the board of education in our county. And i demanded that the other Board Members go to visit schools and to see whats going on. We found that the black kids were going to school as close as they could to where they live because they did not have school buses. White kids had school buses but black kids didnt. And the africanamerican kids down, worn out textbooks, in inferior schools. The board of education later insisted that africanamericans get school buses too. So when they finally got a few school buses, everybody saw the school buses carrying children and they knew this was being done in a silly and segregated way. So thats how i grew up. It was a completely segregated area. And then i went into the navy when i was 18 years old. I went through naval rotc at georgia tech and i eventually got into submarines. I was in the submarine force in 1948. Harry truman, our commanderinchief and president and who i still think of the best president who has lived in my own lifetime anyway, harry , truman ordained that racial segregation be abolished in all the military services and civil services. He commanded it so because of that, i saw an easy transition on my submarine and other ships benefite, and how much to everybody in their attitudes toward one another, fellow citizens and fellow navy men equally. So that was a very good test seven or eight years before , Martin Luther king jr. Became famous or rosa parks. So seven or eight years earlier harry truman was the one that , broke the ice and started the desegregation of america. Mr. Meacham your religious upbringing must of been essential. President carter it was. I grew up also immersed in a inrch in planes church ns, a Baptist Church and my , father was a sunday School Teacher and we went through many parts of the bible. I was a particularly the sermon on the mount and the chapter of matthew. Jesus spells out the essence of what is presently known as universal human rights. He spelled out the proper relationship between the powerful and the weak, between the jews and gentiles, between men and women and he said , everybody should be treated equally. That was the foundation of what Eleanor Roosevelt was doing, and it evolved into the universal declaration of human rights. So there are times in Human History where the United States has gone through all the basic measure of revisions and struck at the essence of the primary moral and ethical values are and put them together in lay terms terms, wassemilegal in the development of the declaration of human rights. That has never happened