Medical school. I spoke regularly with Public Health experts and epidemiologists who spent their careers studying how to crush Infectious Diseases like the coronavirus. Throughout this pandemic, i have relied on their counsel to help guide a response. It has been over seven months thee our country has faced worst Health Crisis in more than 100 years. We have now lost close to 200,000 lives and this pandemic has plunged our country into an economic recession that we havent experienced since the great depression. Lives. 200,000 each one meant the world to their families, to their communities, to their loved ones. I often get calls from our friends and those who live in my Community Sharing their heartbreaking stories. A Nurse Practitioner who serves my district fighting covid on the front lines shared however a 10 minutes a family in florida at the height of the pandemic would get a call that their loved one had died. A young Police Officer received that call from kevin, telling him he h
I have a welcome to the limited Edition Series the stream of United Nations General Assembly we are teaming up this week United Nations to bring you some of the biggest issues in the world right now these are conversations we are not intending to have by ourselves so we are on t. V. We are on instagram we are on you tube but you know what to do you can just jump into the Comment Section and you too can be part of every conversation this week so today we are looking at misinformation around 90. Welcome to the guests i have to say hello to catherine think i can tell everybody who she is still any instruction take out ahead. My family im Claire Wardle and im the u. S. Director of fast draw for a nonprofit that helps people tackle the challenges of misinformation so im pretty excited about this conversation you tatiana i to tell everybody here. Sure im heidi larson and i am a professor of anthropology at the London School of hygiene and tropical medicine but i lead something called the Vac
Free and fair vote. We are holding this hearing and we engage regularly with social Media Companies because they are best positioned to sound the alarm if and when another external actor attempts to interfere. First, because their technical capacity and security background and allows them to protect malicious activity on their platforms, and make attributions to technical indicators that are available only to the companies themselves. And second, because we cannot have complete confidence that the white house will allow the Intelligence Community to look fully and properly inform congress, if there is a foreign interference, especially if the interference appears to assist the president s reelection. That is a dangerous state of affairs, but nonetheless it reflects the reality and why theres hearing is so important. Witnesses, as you described, a lot has changed. In many ways we are better prepared today than we were four years ago. Each of your companies have taken significant steps a
The head of Cyber Security policy also addressed the recent decision to remove an ad for President Trump that included a nazi symbol. This is two hours. Memberst to thank our and supporting staff for helping possible. Ndays event without objection, the chair recess aty declare any time. Before we talk about merging trends, howerging to address some housekeeping matters. First, todays session will be conducted entirely on an unclassified basis. All participants should refrain from classifying any the committee is conducting this in compliance with House Resolution 965 and a Remote Committee proceeding. It is being broadcast live on the website. Like many of you, i would have prefer to hold this in washington dc but because the covid19 pandemic remains serious and widespread, there proceeding remotely to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and public. Todays important conversation is essential to our oversight of the intelligence how the Intelligence Committee is keeping t
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