With me are the bbc s deputy Political Editor, vicki young, and shadow business secretary jonathan reynolds, Transport Secretary mark harper, and Liberal Democrat olly grender. Yes, we had that big, important result for the conservatives, ben houchen has held onto the Tees Valley Mayoralty for a third term. You will know if you have been following all the Election Results that labour have won with a pretty historic swing the Blackpool South by election. There are a lot of people, of course, still coming in, we are yet to hear from counts right across the country, in terms of those local councils. Lets just get a thought, first of all, from our panel. So far, how disappointed are you . fin panel. So far, how disappointed are ou . Panel. So far, how disappointed are ou . , panel. So far, how disappointed are ou . ,. ,y you . On the cancer losses, clearly it is disappointing you . On the cancer losses, clearly it is disappointing to you . On the cancer losses, clearly it is disappointing
Any later than we are. If i could the members of the committee are returning but if i could start with some of my questions, youll be aware that the committee has made repeated requests to twitter for information about the activity of accounts, fake accounts, particularly where they may be connected with russian agencies. It is a similar request made by the u. S. Senate intelligence committee. Thank you, chairman. Thank you for having us today. I would like to defer that question to nick, my colleague from the uk, who does have an update to give you. As he said, and in my letters previously, we have been doing further investigation. I would like to read this because it is i dont want to misread them. Is it very short . Two paragraphs. We have a broader investigation that has been identified a a very small number of suspected internet linked accounts, 49 accounts were active. We had 49 accounts that were active, which represents less than 5 of the total accounts that tweeted about the r
Witnesses to the final panel. The final phase of today is to discuss with the Tech Companies and academic experts as well. If i could start off by asking members of the panel if they could give their view on an issue that is giving us cause for concern. Public uset consumption is increasingly moving out of a curated news space. The news bulletin, edited newspaper, or news website, and people are consuming news more and bite sized pieces that they discover and share via social media. Increasing numbers of people get their news by social media. Of the people in this country get their news from social media sites. What causes concern does that give you about news from your also from theand consumers point of feel whether they are getting a fair and balanced picture. If they are consuming a variety if theyre or exposed to the newsfeed on social media sites. , if you could give a perspective from your News Organization. Thisy wilson on one hand, is the reality of how people consume news and
To try to get them as close as they can to what theyre aiming. But yes. By country, we do really well, like nick said. About 2 of our users geolocate at any moment. At any given time, theres a degree of uncertainty. I just want to be really clear. The question im asking, would you sell advertising would you sell an audience based on a location in a country. Yes. Thank you, chair. Now, you mentioned the figure before has gone up in terms of what you said of fake accounts effectively. Weve had security briefings from people who stood at this subject since 2014. Theyre suggesting the figure could be in the tens of thousands in terms of fake accounts. In addition, the phenomena we see which is probably more damaging is the means by which this is used to amplify these fake accounts and disinformation, which are often accounts which have a certain bona fide texture to them. If you drill right down, they have all the signatures of falsehood about them in that respect. Now, obviously you dont
About the recent debate on net neutrality. Later, School Safety concerns after last weeks shooting in parkland, florida. Members of the British Parliament were recently in the u. S. For a daylong hearing on fake news and the state of the media. This portion included representatives from cbs news, cnn, and the New York Times talking about some of the challenges facing News Organizations. It is just under 1. 5 hours. Welcome to the witnesses and to the final panel of todays evidence section. The final phase of todays to discuss some of the issues of the Tech Companies with academic experts. Off by asking members of the panel if they could give their view on an issue that is giving us cause for concern. Public uset consumption is increasingly moving out of a curated news space. The news bulletin, edited newspaper, or news website, and people are consuming news more and bite sized pieces that they discover and share via social media. Increasing numbers of people get their news by social me