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. I often think you can and mus dobetter. Our security, i t
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 the right. And what were trying to do is look at section 230 an
Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and 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 . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk about here is Health Risks Associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly. A 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram or snapchat. 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 le
Kron. 4 morning far. Well, good friday morning. Thank you for waking lives right early for the kron. 4 morning news reyna harvey. All right. Today is march first and were talking about the big storm that is here. Want to make sure that youre safe. John show youve been actively talking about this for the weekend is arrive. Coming salutely and yesterday we saw kicking into gear in today for the sierra kick it into high gear. Were looking at the forecast for the weekend. That is not going to be fun for your travels specially not to the mountains as for the bay. Right now we are seeing lighter showers out there. Getting a break from it for a lot of spots. Golden gate bridge. You can see the sway to that camera. There. We are definitely breezy as well as windy spots of rain, mostly light this morning at this point. But we will see heavier pockets as we roll our way into the afternoon and the sierra is really where the focus of this energy is. Were really starting to see the snow piling up u
Continues across the bay area this morning when the next round of rain is expected. From the areas local news station. Youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us here on the kron. 4 morning news. Its good to have you. Im stephanie lin. Its saturday march the second and youre likely waking up to some wet weather outdoors. Lets check in now with dave the morning dave. Well, good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. Were being treated to a bay area winter. Finally, this is the real feel for what weve got going on. Weve got some cold winds at work here. We have some rain thats going to be spotty through the day. But it will pounce at times. Kind of coming and going throughout the day. Cant rule out. A couple of flashes are clashes of lightning in there. Potentially some hail those snow levels have really dropped, though. So you might start to see some snow collect in our local mountains. Heres the shot from a radar you can see in th