Now come to order. We will see the amendment and witnesses and this morning the chairman is not here, i give the floor to my good friend Mister Mcnulty from california. Thank you for yielding me and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue we need to care a lot about and good policy on. We are meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security integrated and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating at home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and and others taking steps to address the growing dangers posed by nefarious actors. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy Touching Every aspect of our lives and unreliable grid is also crucial for National Security and a clean energy future. For lawmakers to encourage advances that we can advance the security and reliability of our nations electric grid. We must work on a bipartisan basis to actively engage w
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Hate speech, and misinformation on the platforms. They also discussed foreign interference in u. S. Elections. This House Homeland Security Committee Hearing is 2. 5 hours. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining social Media Companies efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation. In march, a white supremacist terrorist killed 51 people and wounded 49 more at two mosques in christchurch, new zealand. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the vic dems and their families. The motive behind the attack is not in question. The terrorist had written an extensive manifesto outlining his white supremacist, white nationalist, anti immigrant, anti muslim and baptist beliefs. His act was horrifying beyond words. And it shook the conscience. Shockingly, the terrorist was able to live stream the attack on facebook, with the video and its gruesome contents went undetected initially. Instead, Law Enf
With the victims and their families. The motive behind the attack is not in question. The terrorist had written an extensive manifesto outlining his white supremacist, white nationalist, antiimmigrant, antimuslim, and fascist beliefs. His act was horrifying beyond words, and it shook the conscience. Shockingly, the terrorist was one to livestream the attack facebook, where the video and its gruesome content went undetected initially. Instead, Law Enforcement officials in new zealand had to contact the company and ask that it be removed. When new zealand authorities called on all social Media Companies to remove these videos immediately, they were unable to comply. Human moderators could not keep up with the volume of videos being reposted, and their Automated Systems were unable to recognize minor changes in the video, so the video spread online and spread around the world. The fact that this happened nearly two years after facebook, twitter, google, microsoft, and other Major Tech Com
The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining social Media Companies efforts to counter online terror content and misinformation. In march, a white supremacist terrorist killed 51 people and wounded 49 more at two mosques in christchurch, new zealand. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the vic dems and their families. The motive behind the attack is not in question. The terrorist had written an extensive manifesto outlining his white supremacist, white nationalist, anti immigrant, anti muslim and baptist beliefs. His act was horrifying beyond words. And it shook the conscience. Shockingly, the terrorist was able to live stream the attack on facebook, with the video and its gruesome contents went undetected initially. Instead, Law Enforcement officials in new zealand had to contact the company , and ask that it be removed. When new zealand of dohertys called on all social Media Companies to remove these