Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question is there a way to protect free speech on line while fighting misinformation and disinformation lets get to the bottom line. A lot can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it shoes the saying might be a few centuries old but it certainly rings true today anyone anywhere can publish anything and if it catches on theres no stopping what it can do either for good or for evil so how can people be protected from the nefarious manipulation of information and the disruptive promotion of false hoods by governments and organizations or should fake news be allowed to compete in an open market with real news fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have the answers to these questions melissa ryan a digital strategist strategist who studies online toxicity and extremism and writes the weekly blog control all right delete i love that name jody westby a legal expert on privacy and computer crime and the founder of global search cy
A single word search. This was the beginning of google and less than a decade later facebook they would make a new promise to humanity what i think so interesting about google and facebook is they were founded at american universities Stanford University you had 2 students larry page and sergey brin decide they wanted to create the ultimate Search Engine for the internet across the country you had in the case of Facebook Mark zuckerberg who was a student at harvard decided he wanted to create a social media platform basically to meet girls and to make friends and hence we got facebook you never think that you could build this company or anything like that right because i got interested in. Building stuff because we thought it was cool it was all about promise it was all about the shiny future it was all about the free flow of information but there was also a certain idealism behind it i think that a company like google. We have the potential to make very big differences and big positiv
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Engine page famously said the point of google to get people on to google and off of google out into the open web as quickly as possible and largely theyre really successful about that the success of google led to in many ways the success of the open web in this explosive growth in startups in innovation during that period google had developed this Incredible Technology called page rank unveiling what was known in the back row about them and it was your sleeps and bounds ahead of Services Like yahoo altavista and quickly became the clear winner in the space just from a Technology Basis and what page does is it spiders around the internet instead of being a Directory Service like yahoo was its taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links between the web pages and using them to make some assumptions about relevance and so if youre looking for some history of Abraham Lincoln and theres a bunch of links to cross the web pointing to a particular site that must mean that this page is.