Half. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are ready to get started. Is david ibsen, the executive director of the counter extremism project. It is my pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon for our discussion, rights and responsibilities of social media platforms in an age of global extremism. For those of you who may not be aware, however group, cep, is an Education Research working to combat extremism worldwide. In addition to researching extremist entities and their ideologies and formulating and developing and implementing counterradicalization programs in communities around the world, we also work to pressure expose with the hopes of degrading extremist financial and Communication Networks and online and Internet Networks in particular. And this part of our work in the online space has been of continuous importance to us as our organization has grown and the reason is that extremists continue to demonstrate their ability to successfully misuse and weaponize the internet t
Customers, science and transportation committee. This is 2 1 2 hours. Well, good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are welldocumented. Youtube, facebook and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely american guarantee of free speech and by a light touch regulatory policy. But as is so often the case, enemies of our way of life have sought to take advantage of our freedoms to advance hateful causes. Violent Islamic Terrorist Groups like isis have been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize and recruit over the inte
Well, good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are welldocumented. Youtube, facebook and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely american guarantee of free speech and by a light touch regulatory policy. But as is so often the case, enemies of our way of life have sought to take advantage of our freedoms to advance hateful causes. Violent Islamic Terrorist Groups like isis have been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize and recruit over the internet and various social media platforms. The companies that our witnes
Cspan. Org landmark cases. Thursday morning were live in montgomery, alabama, for the next stop on the cspan bus 50 capitals to work. Alabama Senate President pro tempore del march will be our guest on the bus during washington journal. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Witnesses from facebook, youtube and twitter talk about what the companies are doing to prevent criminal activity by users and the tech sectors cooperation with Law Enforcement. The Senate Commerce and finance Committee Held a hearing last week. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I want to thank everyone for being a to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are well documented. Youtube, facebook and twitter among others help to connect people around the world, give