Cspan. Org landmarkcases. Members of the British Committee on Digital Culture media and sport recently traveled to washington, d. C. For a day long discussion on the media and socalled fake news. Part of the event included officials from google and youtube and talking about guidelines of dealing with distribution of misinformation on such websites. This portion is just over an hour. Id like to welcome everyone to a special hearing on the house commons Digital Culture, media sports. And our inquiry into fake news and disinformation. We are thrilled to be here and absolutely delight with the support we received from George Washington university and grateful for their efforts in helping us put on these hearings here. This is the first time a select committee has taken live evidence in this way outside of the united kingdom. Im grateful for everyones work who made the logistics behind that possible. Id like to thank the witnesses from the Different Companies well see today for their eviden
Whose made the logistics behind that possible. Id like to thank the witnesses from the Different Companies well seed to for their evidence too. Just one small piece of House Keeping from the start. For people who are unfamiliar with the work of how fast commons select committees maybe more familiar with the work of congressional committees, its understood that anyone taking part in the proceeding of particle lent like this answers questions honestly and truthfully to the committee and its an offense to mislead parliament. Im nol not saying our witnesses would do that but we dont require them to swear an oath because under our rules its implied that theyre telling the truth. Well also we have a number of sessions to get through today and im conscious that we need to do that in good time gand order. Id like to ask the members of the committee to be clear in directing their questions to either individual members of the panel, be clear what theyre asking for as well. And just to say to the
Vote for based on that. We learned a few new numbers of facebook, 146 million users of facebook and instagram, which facebook opens, saw content that came out of the russian, linked adds. We heard some new things from twitter and google as well, and lawmaker have had some tough questions for the general counsels of the companies which had to sit through a pretty rough two dives grilling from lawmakers. You said we didnt learn a lot about specific things at the beginning there. We basically dont know yet what happened do we . We have an idea what happened. We know of a number of ads that were purchase. Its possible there were more. We know of fake accounts that purchased adds on twitter and we know about some action on google. What we dont yet know is whether there was any collusion with the Trump Campaign in coordination with buying the ad on social media, and we dont really know if it swayed the election one way or another. David mccabe, what did you learn. Beyond the number wes got f
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