The very ne day i want to say that i recognize the challenging position that social Media Companies are in. Your platform host more t the world vws to stay informed, so youre on the frontine of both domestic and foreign disinformation campaigns, and you have to balance american ideals like freedom of speh, ou have to eliminam limit hate you have to limit meaningless information. Thats a significant challee. I saw one of the people w came hereo demonstrate last weekend in washington saying theyre there because they found out that china had, e minute before th polls closed, dumped llions of votes for joe biden. Somebody sa, well, what do you mean . They said, ell, it was on the internet. Its got to be curate. But now your platforms have taken some positive eps. I mentioned that one thing and i heard that people are tang seriously some of this misinformation, sometimes dangerous misinformation, theyve gotten it from your platforms. I often think you can and mus dobetter. Our security, i t
Not follow the normal procedure. So this meeting, we dont know exactly what happened in the meeting, but the statement afterwards from the 2 Senior Republicans from michigan certainly indicate they heard nothing from donald trump. That would change the result of the election in michigan. And that they are going to press ahead. The United Nations is warning of a humanitarian crisis in northern ethiopia says more than 2000000 children are at risk from fighting in tikrit aid agencies in neighboring sudan are planning for as many as 200000 refugees. If european government forces, meanwhile, say theyve taken 2 major towns, the u. N. Secretary general has warned that yemen is inching closer to the worlds worst famine in decades. And setting its arrows call for immediate action to stave off a catastrophe. Yemenis are already suffering after more than 6 years of war. The terrorists reduce relief and currency are obstructing efforts to avert a famine. Ugandan opposition politician bobby wine ha
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Sen. Graham i think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Is it ok if we move forward . Sen. Blumenthal absolutely. Sen. Graham this is about censorship and suppression of the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when it comes to twitter and facebook about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them, can we do better, chemically do we need to do better . The first thing i want to talk about here is health risk associated with social media. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly and 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram, or snapchat. If so why are we having this hearing . The products that these two companies offer, people like and they use. So the bottom line is theyve probably been more successful than their wildest dreams, and theyre having to make decisions that offend people on the left and the right. And what were trying to do is look at section 230 an
Israeli media reporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a secret visit to saudi arabia. Hes reported to have met the crown Prince Mohammed bin salman. And the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o, who was in israel only last week, israeli Prime Ministers office isnt confirming or denying the reports from our force that in ramallah no denial and no official confirmation. But the lack of denial is pretty telling, especially given the fact that this isnt just one report. It has been pretty widely sourced by a number of israeli political journalists. And indeed, the Prime Ministers own social media comment advisor put out a tweet saying that while netanyahu is a Coalition Partner was playing politics, the Prime Minister was making peace. Now the headlines, joshua wong and 2 other hong kong prodemocracy activists have pleaded guilty to charges relating to last years protests. They will not be held in custody until sentencing next week and could face 5 years in jail. Any 40000 e