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remedies might congress take in the wake of these hearings? one thing that had been considered, which seems like a dramatic step, is the congressman asking to have access to the algorithm facebook uses when they promote things in feeds. it is basically their secret sauce, like their secret ingredient. i'd have to think they'd fight tooth and nail before letting that go. walk us through, what could happen here? >> yeah. there's a new discussion in washington, very much prompted by frances haugen, the whistleblower's testimony, where the focus has shifted from things like speech regulation and privacy regulation to regulation of the algorithms, the core technology that runs facebook. what is being discussed is whether facebook should be compelled or forced to allow researchers, in particular, to see how the algorithms work and, therefore, to see how misinformation and harmful content spreads. i definitely think facebook will push back, this is their secret sauce. but this is not about the public being able to see and dissect,
universities. they are claiming the authority to monitor and punish students for what they say outside of school, even on social media. the university of oregon said that they were going to start monitoring students and sanctioning those that say inappropriate things. and often when we see these actions typically at the university level, there is a real political aspect to them. this is not a sort of equal treatment of speech regulation. it tends to be heavily content-based, so what the court said here, she does have free speech rights. this was not disruptive of the high school to justify this type of action. >> john: so that is the standard? this idea that it is disruptive in nature. the school or get this all the way to the supreme court, saying that we need to be able to monitor what kids are saying outside of school. this was outside of school