mccovey, if you need any translation, talk to me after. gina, you re the best. you re the best. and i want you to know although he didn t speak today, want to thank my buddy tom vilsack because he s about preservation. and senator cantwell, thank you for your hard consistent unrelenting work on these issues. and i also want to thank michael bennet the same way. he s been in this from the moment he got elected has been pushing hard. and rubin, i want to thank you, congressman gallego for the work you ve done and continue to do. i really mean it. this may be the easiest thing i ve ever done so far as president. i mean it. i mean it. i have to tell you a quick story. when i was running for office
yes. thank you very much. thank you, chairman. senator cantwell. i think i want to continue on that vein. first of all, the privacy act that i introduced along with several colleagues actually does have ftc oversight of algorithm transparency. i hope you d take a look at that and tell us what other areas we should add. clearly that s the issue at hand here. thank you again for your wi willingness to come forward. the documentation that you say exists, is the level of transparency about what s going on that people haven t been able to see and so your information that you say has gone up to the highest levels at facebook, is that they purposely knew that their algorithms were continuing to have misinformation and hate
facebook has not earned our right to just half blind trust in them. last weerk, one of the most beautiful things i heard on the committee is trust is earned and facebook has not earned our trust. thank you. thanks, senator. senator moran and then we ve been joined by the chair, senator cantwell, she ll be next. we re going to break at about 11:b 11:30 because we have a vote then we ll reconvene. thank you. the conversation reminds me that you and i ought to resolve our differences and introduce legislation. so as senator thune said, let s go to work. our differences seem very minor in the face of the revelations that we ve now seen so i m hoping we can move forward. i share that with you, mr. chairman, thank you. thank you very much for your
there s a lot at stake here. he is. afraid i just want to mention, mers, america s eo of yahoo who actually got one of these letters, she didn t step down yesterday, she stepped down in 2017. that was put some time ago, way before all of our lives changed dramatically, with the pandemic, the election, and everything that has not been since there. neil katz, y all there is this deal that the president the former president cantwell about executive privilege, but he has lost but the presidency. and the current incumbent president, and seeing that the president has allowed former doj trump admits if i were trump i wouldn t be holding my breath. but, again i think it will set