Good morning, everybody. I think w had senator blumenthal remotely, ishat correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay if we move forwar absolutely. Thanks very much . Ill make a brief Opening Statement ts is about censorship, suppression and the 2020 election. A deep dive when it comes t twitter and facebook about the platforms and decisions they make, can we do better . Do we need to do better . The first thing i want to talk about here is health risk associated with social media. The 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 7150, 13 to 17 yearoldsnt 45 online almost constantly. 97 use socia media platforms such as youtube,st facebook or snapchat or instagram. Why are we having thisearing . Shes o companies offer, people like the politics ander u them. They probably more successful in their wildest dream they are having to make decisions that offend people on the left a the right. What we are trying t do is look at section 230 see if it nee to be modified or changed because section 230 basically
Very practical terms. Were in the middle of another election. This election in georgia could determine, in fact, which Party Controls the United States senate. Im concerned that both of your companies are in fact backsliding or retrenching, that you are failing to take action against dangerous disinformation, exactly the same kind of Voter Suppression tactics that existed in the last election and that you are in fact reducing content modification. The fighting words and hate speech in the last election could inflame violence and send poll workers into hiding, discourage people from coming to the polls. We have to expect the same kinds of maligned tactics, in fact they are already visible and im going to ask, mr. Chairman, that these posts and tweets be entered in the record. If theres no objection. That are aimed at delegitimizing the election in january. My question to you is, will you commit to the same kind of robust, content modification playbook in this coming election, including
And the u. S. Secretary of state makes a surprise visit to afghanistan to salvage a deal with the taliban. But convulsions there are a lot down of indias major cities has begun in one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital by and cities such as chennai and calcutta monks them curfews are also in place nationwide and International Flights have been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo now says the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be perspire and thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july the dozens also of cuban doctors have arrived in italy to help Italian Health workers italy is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 people have died. Lets join elizabeth purana mark ora spondon in new delhi youve been following events obviously been whats been going on obviously in india of the past 24 hours indians woke up to a new reality on mon
As the chairman of foreign relations. Like to welcome our members. We are pleased today to have the president of columbia. Here is our special guest. Not unfamiliar with d. C. , hess been here 14 years. He got some of his degrees hear from American University into George Washington university. Hes trained as a lawyer and worked here at the department where he served as a officer in the area and special advisor to the president of the bank on columbia. He was elected june 2018 and keassumed office august 2018. Make opening remarks and following thought, i will preside over some questions and anyone here who wants to ask a question can do so. We will go exactly until 9 30 p. M. The thing is on the record so when you have a question, stand up. Identify yourself, your affiliation and ask your question, not a statement. One question a person. [applause] good morning. Its a great pleasure for me to be here with you. I want to thank you for your introduction. I want to welcome friends, my pur
Since beach beast. Coming up in this edition of your own macs, the life is too short to be sad. Thats the motto of italian leech. You have that shes at least oldest influence or with a huge following on instagram. Its an amazing success story. Time to find out how and why she went viral. Who says you have to be young to be a social media star . Visit. Tell you in. Great grandmother has overcome personal tragedy and is now a grand flowing sir. On instagram. I would i got c. Hi there. Im lead chef eligible. Im 93 years old. Awesome, and it leads to the oldest influence this time. Yeah. So the sheer fact has more than 220000 followers on instagram. She often posts quite revealing photos of yourself. What do people think about that to everyone . What ever their age should be free to display their body and their sexuality and above as as 20000 if photo bad, theyre nice, artistic photo. I dont really see the sexual aspect. Or i see a good looking woman in the see knob, busing yada as well. A