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
As timing who gets it and when, that is all still to be decided. There is a bit of a protocal for this. Well get into that with a prominent doctor as well. The left and right view on this battle, but first to blake burman on this latest news and this efficacy rate which was higher than both companies originally said, right . Reporter exactly, neil. We knew this Pfizer Vaccine candidate was effective. Pfizer though reiterating that today, in fact raising the effective rate on their covid19 vaccine candidate but just as important pfizer today also reported that they believe their vaccine candidate is safe which is why they say they are going to be applying for the eua. That is the emergency use authorization that the fda gives out. They will apply for that in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said earlier today as part of their news release they put out this morning. To date the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine
Another 8 today. Facebook, twitter ceos appearing on capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey were on the hot seat over censorship concerns. Well have the highlights from their testimony in just a few moments. Im connell mcshane. Welcome, everybody, to after the bell. It us great to have you with us. Time now for the news happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. We have blake burman today in washington, susan li and Jackie Deangelis both in new york an gerri willis coming up. She is watching the retail numbers. Blake, lets start with you, any update from washington on the stimulus talks with virus numbers continuing to spike . Potentially, connell, when you look especially down the road, december 11th. Why . Lawmakers need to come together to pass a spending bill so there is not a government shutdown. That is significant in its own right. Why is that also important . Because there is now starting to be some talk in washington about whether or not lawmakers could also ad
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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