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. As one re
Test. Captioning performed by vitac thank you. Thank you, senator peters. Senator johnson. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Harris, i agree with you when you say that our best line of defense as individuals are exposure. People need to understand that they are being manipulated and a lot of this hearing has been talking about the manipulation algorithms, Artificial Intelligence. I want to talk about the manipulation by human intervention, human bias. We dont allow or we certainly put restrictions through the fcc on an individual owning their ownership of tv stations, radio stations, newspapers because we dont want that monopoly of content in a community, much less, you know, facebook, google, access, billions of people, hundreds of millions of americans. So i have staff on instagram go to the political account by the way, i have a video of this so id like to enter that into the record. The hit follow and this is what the list they were given and this is in the exact order and i would ask t
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 im 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 theres widespread unease about the power of these platforms and why its important for the public to understand how they use the algorithms to make inferences from the reams of data about us that affect behavior and in
From the Tech Platform from the streaming verse to the meta goal. But first the new year brings an anniversary that some are trying to forget, others actively denying and others determining to remember. The oneyear anniversary of the trump riot is coming up on thursday. In the words of cnns analyst, there are exceedingly stunning numbers of people who dont relouise how close we came to cataclysmic and constitutional or democratic crisis on january 6th. Or how alarming it is some nates are trying to make such a coup easier to pull off next time. Yeah, the story of january 6th just keeps getting bigger and bigger, even though it keeps shrinking and shrinking at protrump Media Outlets. Their line started right away, minimizing, denying, blame shifting. And their fictions have made it harder to stay focused on the facts. So were going to devote a good time of time this morning to the facts to remembering, to the role of the media and to making sense of aftermath. 1 6 is part of an antidemo
With our political panel. Id be more for again for scottsdale hughes on todays edition of news news use right here on our t america. Ah, well, it was promised to be a fiery intent hearing on capitol hill and it did not disappoint today. General mark, milly, secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and general Frank Mackenzie testified before the senate on the disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. While the 3 dated made. Many errors were made. They also testified that they gave President Joe Biden many options to keep the mission from getting out of control. Barren from zack shows us some of the highlights from todays hearing. I am disappointed, but the statements of witnesses were not sent to the committee until late last evening, giving center to the staff very little time to review the senate armed services. Hearing right out of the gate was off to a bumpy start with the 3 men testifying general mark, milly, secretary of austin, and general Frank Mackenzie angering senators on both side