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The very ne day i want to say that i recognize the challenging position that social Media Companies are in. Your platform host more t the world vws to stay informed, so youre on the frontine of both domestic and foreign disinformation campaigns, and you have to balance american ideals like freedom of speh, ou have to eliminam limit hate you have to limit meaningless information. Thats a significant challee. I saw one of the people w came hereo demonstrate last weekend in washington saying theyre there because they found out that china had, e minute before th polls closed, dumped llions of votes for joe biden. Somebody sa, well, what do you mean . They said, ell, it was on the internet. Its got to be curate. But now your platforms have taken some positive eps. I mentioned that one thing and i heard that people are tang seriously some of this misinformation, sometimes dangerous misinformation, theyve gotten it from your platforms. ....
Sen. Graham i think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Is it ok if we move forward . Sen. Blumenthal absolutely. Sen. Graham this is about censorship and suppression of 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, chemically do we need to do better . The first thing i want to talk about here is health risk associated with social media. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly and 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram, or snapchat. If 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 left and th ....
I request as a member of this committee that you generate such a list and provide it to me. Witc thank you very much, mr. Chairman. H, thank you, mr. Chairman. Man. Facebook and twitter and google have massive power. Y on i will say its dismaying listening to the questions from my democrat colleagues, becauseo they wantr them to sensor more to silence voices that Senate Democrats disagree with more. That is dangerous if we want to maintain free and fair democracy and fair speech. D d there was a time when democrats. Defended free speech and there was a time when democrats defended the principles of a free press. The yet theres an absolute silences from democrats speaking up for the press outlet censored by big tech. Theres a a silence from democrs speaking out for the scitizens silenced by big tech. At the same time that big tech exercises massive power, it also enjoys massive corporate welfare, through the effect of section 230 ....
Label it as racist. Good evening i welcome this is. Donald trump is demanding to meet the anonymous official who blew the whistle on phone calls with this ukrainian counterpart the scandal surrounding those conversations led to the launch of an impeachment inquiry last week of a possible collusion with a foreign power the us president claims the whistleblowers account of what was said was totally inaccurate. Meanwhile reports have emerged pointing out that the u. S. Intelligence community quietly changed the official whistleblower complaint form at around the time the ukraine call scandal broke the old version required a whistleblower to have 1st hand intelligence but the new 4 made another tick box option available meaning relayed information would be considered as well. Now the timing of the change it is noteworthy the latest version of the document says it was revised in august the same month in which the scandal triggering complaint was filed the apparent coincidences led to questi ....