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Social media hearing is heating up. adam schiff is talking right now. let's 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 our feeds tends to be things we were looking for and kamt tour attention to a greater degree. my qu...

>> i'll start, we obviously take both of these issues very seriously. you'll 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 we've seen especially in this investigation is that these malicious actors need -- they need ears and eyes and need to be able to re...

Users and primarily driven by friends and family. that's the core use case of facebook, we want you to come to facebook and see information that's important to you, typically that's the information that's important to your friends and family. and now in a political election season, often times what's 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, it's authentic so you can trust the dialogue that's occurring on the platform. >> adam schiff trying to get answers out of facebook and...

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. i'm remembering mark zuckerberg saying there's no way this influenced the election. >> we don't know how many saw the stuff. facebook has the best understanding of it of all of them at this point because the russians actually made a mistake when they were doing this....