facebook asked for? has a team asked for 10,000 members and been told for budgetary reasons you can have 200? that s part of the conversation that hopefully this will bring to light because we really think i think having watched this testimony today, transparency is the thing that seems to have bipartisan consensus. senators wanted to know more. they wanted to understand what the problems were and the depth of the research and other issues as they start to think about the harder and thornier problems of regulation. we ll have monica lewinsky on later in the hour. she has a new documentary on hbo max. in it, one of the technology experts talk about that social media is a lot like, what if you were driving in your car and there was a company that was designed to look at what you look at while you re driving. this billboard, that stop sign and then you drive by a car wreck and, obviously, we all do what we do when we drive by car wrecks. oh, that s so horrible, whatever, and the artific
company that they have to be honest about and as somebody who worked there, wants them to be honest about. as to what we can do to solve it, there s two things. one is we need more transparency so regulators, academics can study the problem, understand it and we need to tackle these problems. facebook is correct in one thing. their self-regulation has failed. asking them to do it all by themselvesing is isn t going to be something that works. and congress has an opportunity to step up. there are some things that can be done right away. we can see the ftc work on privacy rules. we can see congress take up a privacy law or continue to work on antitrust. but there s a bigger question of how we handle these harms that are kind of more diffuse and more problematic and more technolog can than they ve ever been. things that don t fit neatly in existing regulatory buckets. regulation section 230 was formed in 1996. 1996! i mean, a decade before
she took a tremendous personal and professional risk today. i applaud her. i know i and a lot of other people who worked at facebook over the years are going to be watching close three make sure she s not unfairly retaliated against. but do you agree that the company cares about profits above everything, including whether or not people in the world are imperiled or whether kids are damaged? we heard about that instagram feed that senator blumenthal s staff set up, a 13-year-old pretending she wants to look beautiful and be thin and all of a sudden, she starts getting bombarded with all these like damaging messages and posts. one of the things about facebook, it s always very data driven. when you reduce something down to data, engagement or time spent on site, it s easy to abtract away and say we want more of those things. what we have seen and what i think some of the documents that she brought forth that facebook has not contested shows that engagement has tremendous harms in all
that he might have misunderstood that this mexican-american was not a white supremacist. the company san diego gas and electric has a new chairman, kevin sagara. oh, i didn t know that. should kevin re-hire mr. rafferty? i think that would be great. i mean, it s i think that s what emanuel, if that s what emanuel would feel best about. i was really lucky had a zoom a couple of weeks ago with the targets that were in the doc, and this has been incredibly challenging for him, and people will see when they watch the documentary that these are stories, you know, stories of people that they may have heard the story before, and they will come to learn really surprising aspects of what actually happened and who were these people the minute they made a decision or became public people and i think that s one of the things that is very important about what they re trying to do