It was pressure brought to bear by the Intel Committee that led Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to uncover malicious activity by the Russian-backed Internet Research Agency.
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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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Executives from Facebook, Twitter, Google ARE the malicious actors. You're either out of touch of just as corrupt. You haven't done anything to help the situation and going to the same people who helped create this mess smells highly suspicious.
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They need to be held accountable for what is being published on their platforms. If they publish propaganda and lies, they need to suffer consequences. Please make sure there is a process in place to easily report trolls and fake news.
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