The communicators. Madam chair, thanks for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host before we get into some of the issues, some of the telecommunications and technical issues that your committee deals with, i wanted to ask you abot s. T. E. M. Education. You come from a science background, science education. What is your committee doing when it comes to s. T. E. M. Education and what do you think congress should be doing . Guest let me start with the committee. The committee has passed out two major pieces of legislation that was bipartisan. A matteroffact passed on a consent calendar but it has a long way to go in the senate. It is extraordinarily important that we not only just spread the word but also put in instruments in the empire but, the education environment, to make sure that women and minorities are told about the important of s. T. E. M. Courses. Innovation is our future and if we dont have the people educated and trained and we see a lack of the brainpower now wi
And may affect how they interact with others and thats something that is highly unethical it appears that some young people may have been so affected by this that they may have done harm to themselves based upon what they saw on their facebook feed and it was all because it is experiments these things that we have no standing with facebook were not citizens of facebook we have no on facebook its not a democracy it is this process is not a way we can design the future we cant rely on this Single Company to invent our digital future. Theres theres what i call the creepy line and the google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up for the great wind but not cross at google crosses the creepy line every day. Not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting well its an interesting one. Creepy right because its a word that connotes horror he didnt say dangerous he didnt say unethical theres all sorts of words that could have fit in not slot
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A conservative news source or if its a topic causing buzz among conservatives. Facebook costly manipulates or users they do it by the things that they insert into the news feeds they do it by the types of posts they allow their users to see and the fact that they actually decided to do psychological experiments on their users is something that i think a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that Different Things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to it. On how to watch why your facebook friends post can have a direct effect on your mood new Research Shows the more negative posts you see the more negative you could become. So if for example lets say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they want to see how their users would react via their likes by their stay. Inspire their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having s