Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Writer on the erosion of the liberal order and politics known as ill liberalism. Also at nationalism, goldman security and identity politics impact elections in the United States and abroad. Well, thank you brad for the kind introduction. And let me start by thinking my friend Robbie George and his james mattis program on american idealism and institution for bringing to princeton. Its my first time, beautiful campus. Let me extend and warm welcome to all of you for coming. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1, 1985. But the february 1 is the point of interest. Because on the persian calendar i was born and raised in tehran iran, its a date on which the Ayatollah Khamenei, is the anniversary of the day which the Ayatollah Khamenei in 1979 return to tehran from his exile in paris to help the Islamic Revolution and found the Islamic Republic that took over after the shah was toppled. I mentioned that because throughout my child
Youve cited reports at least 8 of twitter accounts are bot accounts and dont represent an actual person. Was out recently with facebook and they took down accounts. Facebook acted like they had no responsibility for policing fake news. I think they moved into a more responsible position. Id love to hear from all of you what role you feel these Platform Companies that control so much information, google, face boork, twitter, et al, have in this new world. Well go down the list, ambassador burns. Ambassador burns i was impressed with the number of people, take youtube, for example, they now dedicate to try to filter out hate speech and thats commendable. If thats the case, there ought to be an ongoing dialogue between the u. S. Government, our National Security agencies and these companies to try to filter out russia propaganda. Its a direct assault on our country. I was impressed by his testimony. I thought it was quite convincing there has to be an integration of a Technology Company a
I call the hearing to order. Today the committee convenes its seventh open hearing of 2017 to examine russias interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. In the 12th open hearing this year, to date our open hearings have largely focused on the domestic impact of russias activities. Todays witnesses, however, will highlight for the committee and for the American People russias interference in the european elections. We hope to gain additional understanding of russian efforts to undermine Democratic Institutions, worldwide as the committee continues its inquiry. The Intelligence Committee assessed in january that moscow will apply Lessons Learned from its campaign aimed at the United States president ial election to further influence efforts worldwide. It further assessed that russia has sought to influence elections across europe. Director of National Intelligence coats echoed those words as recently as may when he testified before the senate that russias seeking to influence elections in