Mr. Graham thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of today. Ill make an opening statement. Senator whitehouse, senator feinstein would like it make one. I think senator grassley comes, hell certainly be allowed to do so. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. Thats exactly what we want to do. Were here to try to find solutions. Let me describe, i think, the challenge. I doubt if i would be here if it werent for social media, to be honest with you, President Trump told fox news on october 20, 2017. So this is the president of the United States saying that from his point of view, social media was an invaluable tool to help him win an election. I would dare say that every politician up here today asking you questions uses your service and we find it invaluable to communicate with our constituents and get our message out. Not only do we use it, not only does the president us
Traditional cyber security, account compromised, surveillance, dissemination of stolen information. It is only recently that we have seen this threats evolve into this threat you all into dissemination of misinformation. Countries, specific it really is a global threat that we think of it. We would certainly be happy to come back and provide more details on specific actors. Is that true for the rest of you . We as we said in a written testimony see a disproportionate amount of spam or automated accounts coming out of russia. Our tools and technology are agnostic to country. Can hereon and north korea potentially do this . Cant you iran and north korea potentially do this . Yes the internet is borderless. You said you started picking up foreign interference two years ago, is that right . Been tracking threats actors for several years. Before the 2016 election cycle. Did you find activity after the election . Yes we did. What happened after the election . Following the election, we had s
[inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to the Hudson Institute. I am tim weinstein, president and ceo and im delighted to welcome everyone here this morning. Today as they think everyone in this room knows kicks off a very critical week for the u. S. India relationship. As Prime Minister modi is here in washington for a first meeting with President Trump. Here at Hudson Institute, we are delighted to host a special event hosted on the future of the u. S. India commercial partnership and we are also grateful to our friends at cspan for covering this event live. U. S. India bilateral trade has an estimated 11,420,000,000,000, less than one fifth of the u. S. China 640 billion bilateral trade relationship. India is americas ninth largest supplier of foreign goods and 18th largest export market. The worlds first in the worlds six largest economies respectively, we are hesitant to believe there is significant room for growth. The u. S. India relationship is an important one here
Today as i think everyone in this room knows, we kicked off an incredible week for the indiau. S. Relationship. The first meeting with the indian Prime Minister and President Trump. At Hudson Institute we are delighted to host this special event focused on the u. S. India partnership. We are grateful to our friends at cspan for covering this event live. U. S. India bilateral trade stands at less than 1 5 of the u. S. China 648 billion bilateral trade relationship. India is americas ninth largest supplier of imported goods and 18th largest export market. The worlds first and the worlds sixth economies respectively, we had hudson at hudson we institute believe there is significant room for growth. The u. S. India relationship is an important one here at the institute. Our Salvation Program directed by the former ambassador has been active on the u. S. India trade relationship, the u. S. India defense relationship, and the u. S. Indiajapan trilateral relationship for some time now. I was
Today as i think everyone in this room knows, we kicked off an incredible week for the indiau. S. Relationship. The first meeting with the indian Prime Minister and President Trump. At Hudson Institute we are delighted to host this special event focused on the u. S. India partnership. We are grateful to our friends at cspan for covering this event live. U. S. India bilateral trade stands at less than 1 5 of the u. S. China 648 billion bilateral trade relationship. India is americas ninth largest supplier of imported goods and 18th largest export market. The worlds first and the worlds sixth economies respectively, we had hudson at hudson we institute believe there is significant room for growth. The u. S. India relationship is an important one here at the institute. Our Salvation Program directed by the former ambassador has been active on the u. S. India trade relationship, the u. S. India defense relationship, and the u. S. Indiajapan trilateral relationship for some time now. I was