Save the lives of one of your childrens teachers, maybe it saves your life. Please, i implore you, wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement. It is a good way to start pulling the country together. I want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. It is to take or take something away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible. Masks are critical in doing that. It will not be forever. That is how we will get our nation back, back up to speed economically. We can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays, so we can attend sporting events, so we can back to the live and connections we shared before the pandemic. It does not matter who you voted for. We are americans in our country is under threat. We are now called to do the same thing generations of proud americans have done when faced with crisis throughout our
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
Thats actively harmful not just in affective but most of the time things do sentiment of good is just that the very best things we can focus our time and money on do normas them out into the world lets talk about the inefficient ways to quench my desire to do something outrageous to what i read an example in one of your interviewees a charity that for instance sends books to africa for kids to learn with but theres no teachers there so the books arent really making much difference so your money sort of waste it give me other causes that arent effective enough to be donating to if i spend money on for instance Alzheimers Research is it like money well spent is it effective. Ok so i mean Something Like funding out same as the search or funding treatment for illnesses that affects some of it just countries in the world you know these are good things to do theyre making the world better but the question is are they the most effective things you can be doing and i think generally not and th
What do you think is a a statef the Republican Party after november 3 . Its frightening. Its an election we had the rare event of an incumbent president getting voted out and yet republicans seem pretty happy generally with the outcome not because he lost the because on ballot they did so well. Theres a lot ofal expectation that afterxp this election if te polls right and it would be a blowout for democrats, that the be a lot of grappling with in the party about what it stands for and what the future is and from here. Have seen that at all. In a lot of ways republicans feel like what the outcome particularly down ballot is justification of everything thee president has been doingic and that trumpism has worked. Q q had a situation where democrats were expected to take another ten to 12, t 15 feet and the fact have lost close to that in the house. Certainly democrats are very demoralized about not getting the senate. Everybody that was hoping for or expecting perhaps i conversation amon