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Just boil over. [glass breaking] and this creates the reckoning against the tech industry. [man] mark zuckerberg will testify before congress. [woman] facebook's sheryl sandberg and twitter's jack dorsey will appear before the senate intelligence committee to testify in september. [man] you solemnly swear to give the full truth and nothing but the truth? [cecilia] in 2018, the heads of twitter and facebook came to washington to testify before congress. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. and it was my mistake. and i'm sorry. you know, we wish w...

And of course, we need to do more on a whole range of other fronts. so immediately before the election is held in november, they introduced something, which they call internally the nicer newsfeed. [cecilia] twitter and facebook decided to try to slow the spread of disinformation by tweaking the algorithm behind the newsfeed. and they prioritize authoritative news sources. [sheera] places like the new york times, the wall street journal, washington post. suddenly, are surfaced more highly than news outlets that have been flagged for publishing hate speech or misinformation. and what they find ...

[sheera] that was really different because of social media in real time the world could see these young egyptians rising up against their rulers. it gave them a sort of international backing that they hadn't had before. the crowds are shouting and screaming, making what is for them, a joyful noise 18 days into their protest because hosni mubarak has given up the powers of office. after the fall of the egyptian government, wael ghonim was interviewed by wolf blitzer on cnn. [wolf] wael, you're giving facebook a lot of credit -for this. -[wael] yeah. for sure. i want to meet mark zuckerberg one ...

And of course, we need to do more on a whole range of other fronts. so immediately before the election is held in november, they introduced something, which they call internally the nicer newsfeed. [cecilia] twitter and facebook decided to try to slow the spread of disinformation by tweaking the algorithm behind the newsfeed. and they prioritize authoritative news sources. [sheera] places like the new york times, the wall street journal, washington post. suddenly, are surfaced more highly than news outlets that have been flagged for publishing hate speech or misinformation. and what they find ...

Recently, Dr. Omar Alvarez-Pousa and his wife, Cecilia, traveled to Portofino, but they took some time out from their Italian sightseeing to read the Islander News to catch up on