[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. I would like to thank Ranking Member whitehouse, my friend and collaborator. Its great to be here at doing this together. I was just saying to him, i told him i would tell you it would bt nice to them in his edges because hes a top question. He will take you to test. I would like to thank the witnesses for their attendance today. I would also like to highlight two empty chairs today, which i say for saved for two and find witnesses who apparently dont show your commitment to discuss these issues. One chair is for tik tok. If you dont know what tik tok is, you should. Its a chinese owned social media platform so popular among teenagers that Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly spooked. For facebook, that fear is lost social media market share. For the rest of us, the fear is somewhat different. A company compromised byif the Chinese Communist party knows where your childrenws are
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. Id like to thank the Ranking Member senator white house and the collaborator its great to be here and doing this together. I was just saying i told him that it would be nice to have the answers because hes a tough questioner and he will take you to task. Id like to thank the witnesses for your attendance and also highlight two empty chairs today which i say that he invited witnesses who apparently dont share your commitment to discussing the issues. One is for tiktok. If you dont know what tiktok is, you should. Its a chinese owned social media platform so popular among teenagers mark is reportedly spoofed. For facebook the fear is lost to social media market share and for the rest of us it is somewhat different. A company compromised by the Chinese Communist party knows where your children are, what they look like, with their voicewhat theirvoices sound like watching and what they share with each other. They claim they do
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. Id like to thank the Ranking Member senator white house and the collaborator its great to be here and doing this together. I was just saying i told him that it would be nice to have the answers because hes a tough questioner and he will take you to task. Id like to thank the witnesses for your attendance and also highlight two empty chairs today which i say that he invited witnesses who apparently dont share your commitment to discussing the issues. One is for tiktok. If you dont know what tiktok is, you should. Its a chinese owned social media platform so popular among teenagers mark is reportedly spoofed. For facebook the fear is lost to social media market share and for the rest of us it is somewhat different. A company compromised by the Chinese Communist party knows where your children are, what they look like, with their voicewhat theirvoices sound like watching and what they share with each other. They claim they do
Customers, science and transportation committee. This is 2 1 2 hours. Well, good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are welldocumented. Youtube, facebook and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely american guarantee of free speech and by a light touch regulatory policy. But as is so often the case, enemies of our way of life have sought to take advantage of our freedoms to advance hateful causes. Violent Islamic Terrorist Groups like isis have been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize and recruit over the inte
Well, good morning. I want to thank everyone for being here to examine what social Media Companies are doing to combat terrorism, including terrorist propaganda and terrorist recruitment efforts online. The positive contributions of social media platforms are welldocumented. Youtube, facebook and twitter, among others, help to connect people around the world, give voice to those oppressed by totalitarian regimes and provide a forum for discussions of every political, social, scientific and cultural stripe. These services have thrived online because of the freedom made possible by the uniquely american guarantee of free speech and by a light touch regulatory policy. But as is so often the case, enemies of our way of life have sought to take advantage of our freedoms to advance hateful causes. Violent Islamic Terrorist Groups like isis have been particularly aggressive in seeking to radicalize and recruit over the internet and various social media platforms. The companies that our witnes