a military base to. a meeting between president of france and 5 west african leaders on the deteriorating security situation in the region has been postponed. hello and good morning from moscow mining s colum bray it just turned 8 am friday the 13th of december it s 5 am in the u.k. which is waking up to the results of a dramatic and general election exit polls released within minutes of polls closing at 10 pm last night so yes that boris johnson s conservative party will have a majority in parliament after a strong showing in britain s historic general election that means he could keep his campaign pledge and bring home which is what he s been trying to promise all along as for labor a very difficult night for them having suffered. series of humiliating defeat and its leader jeremy coleman says he will not lead labor into the next election let s go straight to the u.k. for special coverage of the results live from westminster they are the moments yes and to break it all down
i want to thank everyone for being here today to examine the use of persuasive technologies on internet platforms. each of our witnesses today has a great deal of expertise with respect to to algorithms and as well as in the more narrow context of engagement and persuasion and brings unique perspectives to these matters. your participation in this hearing is appreciated. i con vain this hearing in part to inform legislation i am developing to give consumers the option to engage with the platform without having the experience shaped by algorithm use specific data. internet platforms have transferred the way we interact and made positive ways on society in ways too numerous to counting. the vast majority of content is innocuous and at its best it is entertaining, educational and beneficial to the public. however, the powerful mechanisms behind these platforms also have the ability or at least the potential to influence the thoughts and behaviors of literally billions of people.
wednesday evening 9 here in moscow my name s colorado welcome to news from lansing international. the u.s. a federal judge has told washington that it must stop alleging that a russian accused of election battling was funded by the kremlin or face a range of potential sanctions the court found that such unsubstantiated claims against the internet research agency which are not included in the 2018 indictment against it risk prejudicing a jury all right gets d f reports. the mueller report the us investigation the media everyone accuses russia of carrying out a sweeping systematic campaign meddling campaign in the us election in 2016 they did it via 2 methods the 1st one was. intelligence agency g.r.u. had his. broke into the d.n.c. systems they allege stole a bunch of embarrassing democrat e-mails and then released them causing again embarrassment for the democrats all again allegedly russia denies all of this the 2nd part of the operation is the scribe william burns the speci
on internet platforms each witness has information on algorithms and machine learning, as well as engagement and persuasion and brings unique perspectives to these matters. your participation in this hearing is appreciated mr. rosensteinly as this committee continues to work on drafting data privacy legislation. icon veeped this hearing in part to inform legislation i m developing that would require internet platforms to give the user information to engage with the platforms without using algorithms pushed by certain data. the vast majority of content on these platforms is at its best, entertaining and beneficial to the public. however they also have the ability or at least potential to influence the thoughts and behaviors of literally billions of people. as one reason why there s widespread unease about the power of these platforms and why it s important for the public to understand how they use the algorithms to make inferences from the reams of data about us that affect be
the internet is not the answer. gocollects the original title, i can t say the original worldsds because i m sure this is a family show. we had a long conversation with my agent. add one point, morgan shouted that the internet is not the answer. so it wasn t my title unfortunately. it s a good title, isn t it? i wanted to ask about the whole chapter you talk about failing, failedcon. what is that? i m sure you been to silicon valley. it is a place of colts. it s in this a place of cult s. it s this idea of failure. the bigger you are, the more you boast about failure. . i attended a conference called failcon. one of the speakers was a young man who boasted he is now the current ceo of uber, the darling of silicon valley, a company worth $40 billion. but he boasted about being sued by record labels for a quarter million dollars because he had a company called scour, which is essentially like napster. so the cult of failure is one of the most irritating aspects of silken