Im the chair of the federal Election Commission and i am delighted to welcome you to to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy, information and integrity in the 2020 elections. A symposium i am cosponsoring. T disinformation has become a newly potent threat in the y pot digital era. It hasas weaponized our most cherished freedoms to sow discord and undermine democracies worldwide. Here in the u. S. We saw russia d deploy disinformation as one of its tools when in the words of the Mueller Report, the russiand government interfered in the president ial election in l sweeping and systemic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout americas e b intelligence community,einoughot halls of congress,y, in the departments of Homeland Security and justice, and by many of the experts who have generously taken the time to speak to you n today. They warnby the these attacks ongoing, they are of accelerat and they areto s unlikely to be waged by russia alone going unl forward. In may wh
Inoculate ourselves to it. To do so, democrats will need to look beyond the hyper engaged on twitter, who align their campaigns with the vast majority of democratic voters who are looking for a pragmatic progressive path forward to beat trump. Guest that is right. Host first, what was the fun house mirror effect in 2016, and what do you think it will be in 2020 . Know, i think a lot of us who are in d. C. Get very sucked in by hearing the people around us. We have an echo chamber of friends, people who are on our social media, and we are informed by that and think then everybody in the country feels that way. We know that those feedback loops are not representative. So, for example, i did not have a lot of people on my social media feeds or friends that wanted to support donald trump, but clearly a lot of people in the country did. And we need to make sure that, as we are heading into picking a democratic nominee, that we are not suffering from the same problem of only listening to the
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Auburn rights s first peoples. Mr secretary, can you please take the roll . Good morning. Thank you. President nixon commissioners, please. Prawn respond with president when i call your name. President martha knewton president , Vice President janet spears present commissioner sasha bittner. Let me meet you. Commissioner, can you hear me . Shes present. Yeah again. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Commissioner wanted zhang president well hello. Okay commissioner, Linda Parker Pennington present commissioner nelson lum. Present commissioner barbara score. Not present and dos executive director kelly, german president. President clinton. We have a quorum. Thank you. Alright commissioners. The next item is item three communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. Public comment will be available in each item on this agenda. Hello. We should make sure commissioner bittner can you hear us . I dont think so. Commissioner. Peter can you hear us now . Yeah, pe