Cspan is brought to you by youe or satellite provider. The communicators looked at technology and its impact on voting and democracy recently with speakers at the state of the net Conference Held in washington d. C. Heres a look. Host katie harbath, is the Global Politics director for facebook. What does that entail . Guest being the Global Politics and government outreach director means that myself and my team who are situated across the world work with governments, elected officials, candidates on how to best use facebook to communicate with citizens. And then we also help to work on facebooks overall efforts in elections which includes protecting the integrity of elections on our platform whether thats through preventing foreign interference, fake accounts, etc. , but then also helping to teach people how to use their Civic Engagement tools so more people can have a voice in the political process. Host people heard you say what you did, and theyre going you didnt do a very good job
Today marks nearly two weeks since the murder of 17 students and staff in parkland, florida. Today also marks the moment that we resolve to do something about School Violence. May it mark the moment that both left and right determine to lay aside their differences and Work Together to prevent future tragedies. To keep our children safe from harm, theres no panacea, no one legislative solution and it disheartens me when i hear talk about what cant be done. Its time to focus on what can be done. Fortunately solutions than state level, glueing my home state of utah, can help show us the way forward. Working in the realm of the possible, utah state legislators have coming to to forge Bipartisan Solutions to stop School Violence. When i was in sal lake last week i western first hand about the safe utah smartphone app. The safeit crisis tex and tip line is a statewide service that provides realtime crisis intervention to youth through texting and in confidential tips program. Licensed clinic
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9 30 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Next, a look at how isis recruits supporters on the internet and how the u. S. Government combats them online. This is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Were going to get started. So welcome to this panel, disrupting isis online the challenges of combating online radicalization. This panel is put on by the Advisory Committee to the congressional internet caucus, and were hosted by the congressional internet caucus, and wed like to thank the cochairs, congressman goodlatte and congresswoman eshoo and senator john thune and Patrick Leahy for hosting us here today. The caucus hosts events every few weeks on salient topics to the internet and policy, and and we invite you to come out for events throughout the summer. So today we have several excellent panelists with us today. We have emma llanso from the center for democracy and technology who works on the Free Expression project. We have Rashad Hussain from the department
Congress from that. Look, i will say on my side of the aisle, we are one party. Obviously this is a hard issue to talk about but i understand and support what the nrcc is doing, i just think members of congress should be removed from it. To ricks point, i worked for 12 or 13 years on staff but largely in my professional life about 20 years with my predecessor, just a wonderful legislator, a wonderful man by the name of bill young. He came in in 1970. You know, when we first got elected in 1970, the nrcc raised money for us. The nrcc gave us money. Now we are in a world where you get elected as new member of congress and you get a bill, you are given your dues. Its one of the worstkept secretes around here. Members of congress are told this is how much money you have to raise for the party based on years of service and i got a 400,000 bill this year, im not paying it. Does that put me on the outs a little bit . Sure. Does that mean we cant find a way to continue to Work Together and i c