Talks about social Media Companies approach to misinformation on their platforms. At 945 a. M. , virginia senator tim kaine host this is the washington journal for october the 20th. Pennsylvania,p in Vice President pence planned a stop in cincinnati, ohio. Two recent polls suggest when asked about the impact of social media and political discourse, most people responded it had a negative effect. What about you . What do you think of social medias impact on the way we get information about politics and how we talk about politics . You can let us know on the lines this morning. 2027488000 hooves 2027488001 who support President Trump and mike pence, 2027488000 for joe biden and Kamala Harris. 2027488002 if you are undecided or support another candidate. If you text us, you can do so at 2027488003. Our Facebook Pages facebook. Com cspan. Those polls, one of them comes talks about social medias impact. Heres a result of the survey saying by Political Party, there slight while 83 to republi
The committee will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Online content moderation has largely enabled the internet experience that we know today, whether its looking up restaurant reviews on yelp, catching up on snl on youtube, or checking in on a friend or a loved one on social media. These are all experiences that weve come to know and rely on. And the platforms we go to to do these things have been enabled by User Generated Content as well as the ability of these companies to moderate that content and create communities. Section 230 of the Communications Decency act has enabled that ecosystem to evolve. By giving Online Companies the ability to moderate content without equating them to the publisher or speaker of that content, weve enabled the creation of massive online communities of millions and billions of people to come together and interact. Today this committee will be examining that world that section 230 has enabled,
The 1996 Communications Decency act regarding the content users post on their platforms. The American Enterprise institute hosted the discussion. It is about an hour and a half. Good morning. Event youvec chosen to attend, watch online or view on cspan is should we reform section 230. Off with an interpretive reading of the 1996 commit case and and decency act, provider or user of an Interactive Service shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. For more than 20 years since the birth of the internet age as we know it, section 230 has provided websites from immunity for what their users post. The Electronic Frontier foundation describes the importance of section 230 this way, this legal and policy framework has allowed for youtube users to upload their own videos, amazon and yelp to offer countless user reviews, craigslist to host classified ads, and facebook and twitter to offer social networking to billions of intern
Welcome, everybody. Welcome. Apologize for the lack of space and lack of sandwiches. More people showed up than we were expecting. If you were expecting that jay z would be on this panel, i apologize. I dont think he was available. But this is Congressional Internet Caucus Academy briefing. Weve been doing these things since 1996. A pretty remarkable span of time. Informative issues, discussions on critical internet issues as we see them. Were policy agnostic but try to provide a good baseline on understanding of key issues. Todays panel in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul jay z or congress. This is with congressional in conjunction with congressional internet caucus. The cochairs of caucus on the senate side are chairman john thune and patrick leahy. On the host side congresswoman anna escru. Congressman collins would be cochair on the caucus and were thrilled to have him. The reality is that for members participating in briefings and hosting briefings in conjunction w
Apologize. I dont think he was available. D the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave thing to do and they want to have more information and education on these difficult issues my name i is jimmy and im the director of the caucus academy. A little bit of housekeeping. It will be on cspan today lie on cspan. Org also tonight on time on cspan television. The hash tag today is music moguls and you can follow along at caucusac and we will broadcast afterwards. Let me start off by setting the stage. This is supposed to be an educational events. Congress has been very involved in music and a lot of people dont know that and a lot of people dont understand where congress is involved for the federa