Half. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are ready to get started. Is david ibsen, the executive director of the counter extremism project. It is my pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon for our discussion, rights and responsibilities of social media platforms in an age of global extremism. For those of you who may not be aware, however group, cep, is an Education Research working to combat extremism worldwide. In addition to researching extremist entities and their ideologies and formulating and developing and implementing counterradicalization programs in communities around the world, we also work to pressure expose with the hopes of degrading extremist financial and Communication Networks and online and Internet Networks in particular. And this part of our work in the online space has been of continuous importance to us as our organization has grown and the reason is that extremists continue to demonstrate their ability to successfully misuse and weaponize the internet t
At any time. Ill now recognize myself for five minutes for my Opening Statement. Good afternoon. Thanks for being here. Its been over 240 years since our forefathers declared independence and a democratic experiment began. Throughout the entirety of our existence our adversaries have sought to suppress our voting process. Voting is one of our fundamental rights. Our existence as a democracy depends on free, fair and accurate elections. Today we are here to talk about the best way to protect the integrity of our Voting Systems bu the cybersecurity of our Voting Machines and election systems. There are over 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide that administer elections and even within states, counties use different systems and different technologies to conduct elections. Over a year ago, last september. Ranking member kelly and i held a hearing in the subcommittee titled cybersecurity and sharing the integrity of the ballot box to discuss potential cybersecurity issues with the upcom
The ftse is down, and the spanish market, all down following what happened yesterday. And well be getting the inside track on the big tech stories of the week, including the ongoing row over russian hacking in the us. Rory cellanjones will be here to talk about his exclusive interview with the founder of Kaspersky Labs later in the programme. So today we want to know, how safe do you feel online . And do you trust Internet Security companies . Let us know, just use the hashtag, bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in the estonian capital tallinn, where European Union finance ministers are gathering this weekend. Top of the agenda are plans for a shake up of the way huge tech firms, the likes of google, facebook, apple and amazon, pay taxes. The giants of the so called Digital Economy have faced criticism in europe forfailing to pay what some see as their fair share of tax. So whats being proposed . Well, the plan is to make the Companies Pay tax wherever in the eu t
Retirement, you can ave for college, have good vacation, one vacation for a week a year, you know, nobodys what that we will leave this conversation. This segment and others under the washington journal tab at cspan. Org. Take you live now to the newseum a couple blocks from the u. S. Capitol. A conversation about countering extremism online and in social media. Hosted by the counter extremism project. In addition to researching extremist entities and their ideologies and formulating and developing and implementing counterradicalization programs in communities around the world, we also work to pressure expose with the hopes of degrading extremist financial and Communication Networks and online and Internet Networks in particular. And this part of our work in the online space has been of continuous importance to us as our organization has grown and the reason is that extremists continue to demonstrate their ability to successfully misuse and weaponize the internet to radicalize, recruit