Congress. Watch washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern Tuesday Morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Spacex crew dragon is making contact with the International Space station this evening. We expect the docking to begin around 11 00 p. M. Eastern once that occurs, there will be a welcoming ceremony for the four astronauts on board. We also expect a News Conference with nasa officials in the early or morning hours. This is live coverage on cspan. We will next move through wave. 1, 220 meters away directly in front of the docking port. Where dragon docked steering demo one and demo two. We will be looking for the go to keep out the sphere of 200 meter radius, and invisible line around the station that helps flight controllers monitor vehicles they approach and depart the International Space station. Such a cool view. Seeing dragon with the canada arm from the station. The earth in the background. We use to use t
Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and 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 . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk about here is Health Risks Associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly. A 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram or snapchat. 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 le
Material on digital platforms be entered into the record. B thank you both for being here today. Without objection. Senator cornyn. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Dorsey, in recent hearings beforee the Senate Commerce thi committee, you said, i think, that twitter has a policy olicy against this information relating to civic integrity. Gri. President trump and his allies have tweeted hundreds of false al claims about the 2020 election. Trump has falsely claimed victory and alleged widespread voter fraud. So, heres the question. Does misinformation about the results of an election and voter fraud relate to civic integrityr why or why not . Yes, it does. And we label those tweets. When the election has not been t called yet or multiple sources have called it differently. Calld im sorry. I didnt understand that. I di did you say you have been able y to tweet . No. Tweet . We have labeled the tweets that would indicate a different result in the election, called e by multiple sources. In the
Now come a heang on the Health Concerns of the veterans exposed to hazardous checals. While deployed at the airbase in his pakistan known as k2. A Veterans Affairs Department Official told the subcommittee that more Scientific Data is needed before providing health care and disability benefits to those that served at the base between 2001 and 2005. This is about 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hybrid hearing of the National Security subcommittee. On the committee of oveight and government reform. Pursuant t the hse rule, some members will aear in person and others will appear remotely. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everybody that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attenng this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are notearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few rinders for those members that are appearing i person. You will only see member
Representing different parties and different points of view had many specifics to be worked out. Given the data needs associated with the coronavirus aftermath. The panel will discuss the tradeoff between privacy and the context of the pandemic and get back privacy considerations and what the new privacy wall should look like and include and what it should not include. We are a distinguished panel to discuss these issues. Let me introduce them now. We have professor of law at the university of arizona. Christina montgomery is Vice President and chief officer at ibm, the former acting chair and commissioner now a partner of the law firm, andrew smith is the head of the bureau of Consumer Protection of the ftc and distinguished professor of management. Let me start out with a question for the panel and then also take you in the same order. Has the pandemic changed the tradeoff and beneficial uses of data, and if so, how. In terms of where the policy debate is going, i found its done surp