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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. ....
Counties, including the purple counties here in the bay area in terms of restriction. And at some point throughout this week, hes mentioned those efforts going on in l. A. County. So, what exactly is being done there . Well, on top of ending Indoor Dining last week, the city of los angeles issued a modified stayathome order wednesday that echoed what the county issued on monday. That city order bans gatherings of people outside of immediate households with some exceptions such as religious service and protest. Governor gavin newsom hosted a Conference Call with members of various cabinets yesterday to work out a restriction and on that call representative with National Federation of independent businesses. He said they should expect that announcement within a day or two from the governor. So, some businesses working ....
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 th ....
There is still that little bit of possibility you could see some shower activity for the first half of our day. Aside from that it will be a lovely afternoon. A great shot of san jose. I think this is the gorgeous sunrise kira was talking about. Our current temperatures right now, it is still a pretty cold start in areas like napa, fairfield and concord. Look at tracy. 39 degrees in tracy right now. 37 in concord. 39 in napa. 40s down to the south bay. As we head into the afternoon we will be seeing a nice increase in temperatures. Another thing were monitoring those king tides. A coastal Flood Warning in effect through dome. In addition to that were also expecting breezy winds to kick up today and then, get this, we have a next chance of seeing rain heading into the workweek. That in a few minutes. Kira . Thank you for that, vianey. Thank you so much. Tensions remain high following the president ial election and yesterday tens of ....