Hearing. The chair is roger wicker of mississippi. This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Today, we will discuss with the technology is doing to remove violent and extremist tenth from their platform. This is a matter of serious important to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today, we representative on the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms, we hear from this Monika Bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook, and mr. Nick pickles, policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater, Global Policy director, and Senior Vice President of program for the anti defamation league. Over the past two decades, the United States has led the world in the development of social media and other services to allow people to sites like google, facebook, and twitte
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Steve is right over here. It will be a nice day for us. Here. 60s, 70s, 80s. The weekend warmer. The 4th looks cooler. Patchy fog, not much at all. Far less than we saw yesterday at this time. Sunny to mostly sunny. Higher clouds scooting through. Record rainfall to portland yesterday. 54 hundred from a thunderstorm. That low is responsible for rain there. Keeping news the 60s, 70s and 80s. Little bit below average on a lot of these temperatures. Inland temperatures running below average. 40s, 50s, 60s, settling in to more 50s, uniform, i so thermal as i have seen around the bay. Berkley in the city, mid 50s. A little bit of fog. That low is going to hang around for a couple of days. 60s, 70s, 80s. Subtle changes daytoday. I can tell there is less fog, steve. I noticed it in my traffic cameras. I can see the beginning of the sunrise. The maps, we want to have you covered north bay, westbound, through cor dealia. See green here, no big problems to tell you about this is good news. Slowi