Threehour hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks are attending i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. We had a series of votes on a singapore that just concluded and so welcome. Welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media buys with witnesses from facebook and twitter. As i noted then, in inquiry into big tech censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what were doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read, and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Google domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that, to google, is now a commonplace. With that market power, google can and often does control our discourse. And sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effects of those products as though their forces outside of big text control. As weve heard time and time agai
41 year career in the air force and in the National Intelligence and National Security area and talk to us about his book, playing to the edge american intelligence in the age of terror. The title playing to the edge is kind of a Sports Metaphor i think. Its like pushing the envelope or playing right to the edge of the field with truck in your cleats and its appropriate that general hayden would use Sports Metaphors. He practically was born in the shadow of the Pittsburgh Steelers stadium. They tore down my home to build three rivers stadium. All right. And we didnt mind because it was the steelers. Modestly dangerous comment. He was born in pittsburgh, of Irish Catholic family and the son of a welder. In Junior High School he was quarterback of his Football Team and coach of the Football Team then was the son of the founder of the steelers, the connection with his team who goes way back and theres actually a road now along the side of the stadium called Michael Hayden road and he was
Now the head of facebooks news feed, the founder of craigslist and a panel of journalists and academics discuss the effect of consumers and the media. This is about 90 minutes. Let. We had a distinguished panel. We hav, right here to my left, the first panelist here is laura seidel laura sydell. Or willany of you heard onten to her amazing story disinfomedia, one of the stories that really brought this to light in my mind. That aired for the first time last september and has been viewed many times since. Adam mosseri, we are very happy to have someone high up with the newsfeed of facebook. Adam manages the team responsible for delivering relevant content, news content, for those relevant users. Recently, facebook has taken some important steps to address the problem of fake news on their platform. We are delighted to have his presence. Us. Ave Craig Newmark with craig is a web pioneer, the founder of craigslist. It is a speaker and who also you often introduces himself modestly as a ne
Now the head of facebooks news feed, the founder of craigslist and a panel of journalists and academics discuss the effect of consumers and the media. This is about 90 minutes. Let. We had a distinguished panel. We hav, right here to my left, the first panelist here is laura seidel laura sydell. Or willany of you heard onten to her amazing story disinfomedia, one of the stories that really brought this to light in my mind. That aired for the first time last september and has been viewed many times since. Adam mosseri, we are very happy to have someone high up with the newsfeed of facebook. Adam manages the team responsible for delivering relevant content, news content, for those relevant users. Recently, facebook has taken some important steps to address the problem of fake news on their platform. We are delighted to have his presence. Us. Ave Craig Newmark with craig is a web pioneer, the founder of craigslist. It is a speaker and who also you often introduces himself modestly as a ne
Remember, as you walk the capitol hill, that you are building on the legacies of those who walked those halls before us. And you are starting a new legacy that we are building for future veterans. So carry that legacy forward. Thank you for all you do, day in and day out, month after month, and year after year. God bless you, and may god bless our country, the United States of america. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] in case you missed it, here are some clips of cspans programming this last week. Joe biden. Ent i have been covered by the best in the business and some of the worst. Some of you press guys who are lousy, just like some senators who are lousy, doctors are lousy, lawyers are lousy. But it does not matter. We should never challenge the basic truth that an independent and free press is a fundamental eleme