Host the committee the co is that the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. Were going to share some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. So brewster kahle, what you do for living . Guest i run the internet archives, Internet Library onto internet the gives way books, music, video webpages, software for free trying to build the internet into the library of alexandria for the digital age. Host that sounds like the internet, doesnt it . Guest the internet is getting there but lets take of the web. The average life of the webpage is only 100 days before it is changed or deleted. 100 days. We built our culture on this ever shifting sand so what the internet archives does is it take snapshots of the webpages on websites every two months. Snapshot, snapchat comes snapshot. Its been doing this at 1986 and offers this as a service. Its used by hundreds of thousands a day. They find all these things disappear, either ma
That gives away software for free, trying to build the ofernet into the Library Alexandria for the digital age. Peter that sounds like the internet, doesnt it . Brewster the internet is getting there, but the average life of a webpage is only 100 days before it is changed or deleted. Peter 100 days . Brewster so weve built our culture on ever shifting sand. The archive takes a snapshot of the webpages on websites every two months. Snapshot, snapshot. Its been doing it since 1996 and offers it as a free service of the way back machine on archive. Org and it is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day. All of these things have disappeared either maliciously or sometimes just they drop off the net. Peter how many websites are there today . Brewster hundreds of millions, and they are coming and going all of the time, that we collect about 800 million pages every day. The total collection of about 800 billion urls. It is kind of huge, and it turns out that is only part of what we do. W
A military base to. A meeting between president of france and 5 west African Leaders on the deteriorating security situation in the region has been postponed. Hello and good morning from moscow minings colum bray it just turned 8 am friday the 13th of december its 5 am in the u. K. Which is waking up to the results of a dramatic and general election exit polls released within minutes of polls closing at 10 pm last night so yes that Boris Johnsons conservative party will have a majority in parliament after a strong showing in britains historic general election that means he could keep his Campaign Pledge and bring home which is what hes been trying to promise all along as for labor a very difficult night for them having suffered. Series of humiliating defeat and its leader Jeremy Coleman says he will not lead labor into the next election lets go straight to the u. K. For special coverage of the results live from westminster they are the moments yes and to break it all down for us were j
I want to thank everyone for being here today to examine the use of persuasive technologies on internet platforms. Each of our Witnesses Today has a great deal of expertise with respect to to algorithms and as well as in the more narrow context of engagement and persuasion and brings unique perspectives to these matters. Your participation in this hearing is appreciated. I con vain this hearing in part to inform legislation i am developing to give consumers the option to engage with the platform without having the experience shaped by algorithm use specific data. Internet platforms have transferred the way we interact and made positive ways on society in ways too numerous to counting. The vast majority of content is innocuous and at its best it is entertaining, educational and beneficial to the public. However, the powerful mechanisms behind these platforms also have the ability or at least the potential to influence the thoughts and behaviors of literally billions of people. As one re
Wednesday evening 9 here in moscow my names colorado welcome to news from lansing international. The u. S. A federal judge has told washington that it must stop alleging that a russian accused of election battling was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the court found that such unsubstantiated claims against the Internet Research agency which are not included in the 2018 indictment against it risk prejudicing a jury all right gets d f reports. The Mueller Report the us investigation the media everyone accuses russia of carrying out a sweeping Systematic Campaign meddling campaign in the us election in 2016 they did it via 2 methods the 1st one was. Intelligence agency g. R. U. Had his. Broke into the d. N. C. Systems they allege stole a bunch of embarrassing democrat emails and then released them causing again embarrassment for the democrats all again allegedly russia denies all of this the 2nd part of the operation is the scribe William Burns the special coun