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And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election preside ....
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. ....
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 ....
In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, ....