[inaudible conversations] thank you very much for being here and i particularly want to thank chairman barrasso because he allowed us to have the subcommittee hearing and for me to chai chair if this is a discn thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International P
Thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International Partners. The Bipartisan Legislation within the state department is now the law and to get it up and going we will hear more about that today but we are pleased that we are making progress. They lead, synchronize
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A delegation to take a closer look here in not only in the countrys capital but in other cities that have that have taken part in these demonstrations and the different sectors of society that have joined in on the un russe as you mentioned already and in your introduction there are new sectors even now a week and a week since young arrest began were seeing new parts of the of the country that are joining in where you mentioned the Truck Drivers that are holding a strike today that are blocking roads in parts of parts of the country and it is friday so there is an expectation that the protests which are only now starting to convene for friday will be even larger potentially than the ones that weve seen in the past few days now chiles president have a stamp yet assigned signed some social reforms in an effort to calling the unrest regarding pension regarding regarding electricity bills stabilizing the cost of electricity over the course of the next year in 2 into december of next year b
Us users in an effort to combat misinformation the social media giant is partnering with several news organizations to have the story syndicated on the platform a team of editors will help cure rate content for facebooks mobile app they spoke has long been criticized for failing to curb the spread of false information and were having a team of people who are choosing which content to show which creates a relationship in a dynamic where we have a reason to go out and pay for that content to go get it into the systems that way we can choose to show it rather than just having it be ok im im following you know one of these organizations and ill get to see whatever that publisher assange. A giant rock in Central Australia considered sacred by Indigenous People is now off limits to climbers hundreds of tourists flock to lure it to be the last to scale it brutal people have fought for years to get the ban in place there is Andrew Thomas reports. You dont see them from a distance but zoom in a