Youre watching cspan2. Your unftered view of government. Created by americans Cable Television companies emma is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Acebook market zuckerberg and twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey testified about the president ial election helped erica manng misinformation online. From this in a jewish inhe judiciary committee. This is four hours. Good morning everybody. I think weave senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct. And is it okay if we moveha forward. Absolutely and thank you very much. I will make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorshipuppression in the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when i facebook. Witter and about the platforms and the decisions they make and how they make them. Can we do better. Do we need to do better. So the first thing that i want to talk about here is health risket associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 75013 17 yearolds found that 45 percent online almos
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
Other, whose platform and has done more to protect the 2020 president ial election. Mark zuckerberg is going all in on the claim that facebooks moves have been historic. They have done more than any other country in history to make sure bad, fake information about this election is staying off of their platform. I will paraphrase something he said. They introduced new policies to combat Voter Suppression and misinformation and we worked with local Election Officials to remove hundreds of thousands of false claims about polling conditions. That he worried could have led to Voter Suppression. There is one thing so far in this hearing everyone agrees on, that is which posts stay up on these platforms, which come down and which get slapped with warning labels should definitely not be up to the u. S. Government. Take a listen. When it comes time to flag content as being reliable or not reliable do either one of you believe that the government should do that . I dont believe so. I think that
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