Representative Lauren Boebert has introduced new legislation which will require the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disclose how much capital it spends working with social media.
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced the ELON Act, requiring the U.S. comptroller general to submit a congressional report on the DOJ's spending with social media firms.
right. we haven t seen this from china targeting the u.s. you know, you talk to some of these social networking companies and they have not pointed to china as an example of that. but they have pointed to other instances whether it s saudi arabia or it s individual countries in latin america where we re seeing disinformation operations. and in many cases they aren t targeting the u.s. they re targeting other countries where they have geopolitical influence. so in the u.s. we still have to deal with ivan and there is russia. russian agents have not stopped trying to influence the u.s. political conversation. and the threats still persist entering 2020. so here s what twitter is saying. as part of our public archive information operations, we have disclosed thousands of accounts and millions of twaets originating in iran. every year is an election year on twitter and we will be applying all of our global learnings to protect and enhance conversations around the 2020 election. do you
live videos and keep this trash off their sites. white supremacy terrorism is a growing threat and a article on cnn.com that proves it very clearly. regard to the social networking companies. i don t want to put all of the blame on the tech giants because a lot of these issues are deeper than the technology. but the tech websites, facebook and google lie this to spread and be amplified all around the world and a problem these companies say they are trying to address. we received some really interesting new information from facebook overnight saying that there were attempts to post more than 1.5 million copies of that massacre video. as we know, the gunman, the suspect in new zealand live streamed his attack and then copies of the video were circulated around the web. according to facebook, 1.5 million attempts were made to repost it presumably by other people who wanted to share it.
if you have privacy concerns don t sign up for facebook. i think when you bring in the government and start regulating it becomes a slippery slope. you re acting like the government doesn t already regulate media conglomerates. facebook has a television channel and produces its own content. sandra: there are bipartisan calls for these questions to be answered. lawrence, you re identifying what could be the sticking point. i can see republicans having an huge issue of all of a sudden there are calls for regulation on the social networking companies. this is supposed to be a network where we as average-day citizens are able to communicate. we re not talking about celebrities. we re talking about people live streaming from their apartments or at events or concerts or whatever. when you bring in the government