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 well documented. 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 witnesses
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
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Or parts of institutions to challenge ourselves to be more rigorous in identifying the outcomes that we value and beginning to build up a body of work, measures of those outcomes that we can talk about over time. I think the holy grail in all of this is to be able to develop longitudinal systems of data about outcomes and tracking changes in individuals lives over time. And at the state level, there are several states well along in this project. I wish we were further along in the federal government. And i think theres an opportunity for not only institutions, but companies to develop tracking systems that would help institutions measure the process of the folks who participate. So you have, as i think many in the room know, some of your own scars in outcomes measurement. As i read in the the New York Times, you and i, we didnt talk about this at the time but u read in the the New York Times when you took your job president obama had in mind a College Ratings system pretty clearly in h
Bornagain neuroscientist and he has discovered how spectacular neurosciences today and this is a place where we have so much attraction. And it has moved forward that we have fun at our second year, about 84 million a we have in this for over a hundred projects across the country. Images within your agency . There are 10 institutes engaged in this and so its a partnership with the fda and nsf as well, there are many different federal agencies involved and lots of private partners. The important thing to talk about is this. I think that in the house and senate theres an ambition to weigh in on this as well. And this is not about specific diseases or Brain Disorders but developing the technologies to be able to understand how the brain works and we are already being fantastic tools being developed across the country without wanting to say too much about it at this time. But there is a group in seattle that has opened up this field for all of us in a way that gives us the excitement over