This morning, the Senate Intel committee heard from top experts on social media manipulation and foreign influence operations like the one we saw during the 2016 election.
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Today, it is becoming clearer that activity represents just a small fraction of the total Russian effort on social media.
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I’m also concerned that the U.S. government is not well positioned to detect, track, or counter these types of influence operations on social media.
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But all the evidence the Senate Intelligence Committee has seen to date suggests that the platform companies – namely, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, and YouTube – still have a lot of work to do.
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Before I went into public service, I spent more than 20 years in the tech business. I have tremendous respect for these companies and what they represent. When they are at their best, they are a symbol of what this country does best: innovation, job creation, changing the world.
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I’ve been hard on them because I know they can do better to protect our democracy. They have the creativity, expertise, resources, and technological capability to get ahead of these malicious actors.
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That’s why we will be hosting senior executives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google for a hearing on September 5th. To hear the plans they have in place, to press them to do more, and to work together to address this challenge.
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Today we focused on what happened in 2016 and what is happening now, but Russian active measures have revealed a dark underbelly of the social media ecosystem.
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These same tools that spread misinformation can negatively affect other aspects of our lives. I think we need to start pushing ourselves beyond just recognizing the problem and start to push actual policy ideas forward.
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Meme's destroyed our democracy as we know it. We need a "Ministry of Truth" an Ministry of facebook Memes and Instagram post" Hey did you check to see if the Saudi's did similar how about the Israeli's? Heck the U.S. government? The later did far worst.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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From the Fed "the labor market continued to strengthen and economic activity has been rising at a strong rate. Job gains have been strong and the unemployment rate has stayed low. Household spending and business fixed investment have grown strongly." We are doing good - MAGA.
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I don't see Sen. Warner talking about any of this. He will just cherry-pick the news that supports his point of view.
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He is not referring to the news, but to a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that just took place today. I’ve no doubt he and others will have more to say about it.
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I'll keep an eye on his comments. Also, today
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Watch Sen. Richard Burr’s comments too. Sen. Warner’s GOP counterpart on the Intelligence Committee.
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