Our Committee has invested a significant amount of time, focus and energy – both in public and behind closed doors – in uncovering and exposing Russian information warfare in our own backyard.
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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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Technology is more than just sales and bottom lines. Technology needs to be ethical and moral as well. Something we don't have today.
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What about Google who if what I read is accurate is compromising ethics and providing censorship for Chinese govt...all to make more money I assume. Read on multiple mainstream news sources.
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I like you Senator Warner, but having been a HUGE investor in Russia’s Yandex RU, makes me as an American listening to you now—very unnerving.
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