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during that hearing where jack dorsey had exchange about these shadow accounts with the chairman, greg walden. here's a bit of that exchange. mr. walden: certain prominent serve serve users, including of sour colleagues, who have come to us, representative meadows, jordan, gaets, were not shown in the automatically populated dropdown searches on twitter, correct? out of the more than 300 million active twitter users, why did this only happen to certain accounts? in other words, what did the algorithm take into account that led to prominent conservatives, including members of the u.s. house of representatives, not being included in auto search suggestions? what cows causted that mr. dorsey: thank you for the question. we used signals. usually hundreds of signals to determine and decide what to show, what to down rank, or potentially what to filter. in this particular case, as i mentioned in my opening, we were using a signal of the behavior of the people following accounts. we didn't believe upon further consideration, and also seeing the impact, which was about 600,000 accounts, pretty broad
during that hearing where jack dorsey had exchange about these shadow accounts with the chairman, greg walden. here's a bit of that exchange. mr. walden: certain prominent serve serve users, including of sour colleagues, who have come to us, representative meadows, jordan, gaets, were not shown in the automatically populated dropdown searches on twitter, correct? out of the more than 300 million active twitter users, why did this only happen to certain accounts? in other words, what did the...
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it was during that conversation went jack dorsey had a conversation with greg walden. here's the exchange. >> in one example of many, important conservatives representatives have come to us and say they were not shown in the automatically populated drop-down searches on twitter. correct? than 300 the more active twitter users, why did this only happened to certain accounts? in other words, what did the algorithm take into account that led to prominent conservatives including members of the u.s. house of representatives not being included in auto search populations? >> thank you for the question. we use hundreds of signals to determine and decide what to show and what to down break or potentially, what to filter. in this particular case, we were using a signal of the behavior of the people following accounts. , upon didn't believe further consideration and seeing the impact -- which was about 600,000 accounts, a pretty broad base, that it was ultimately fair so we did decide to correct that. wasn't decided that it fair to use this signal for filtering in general. so we
it was during that conversation went jack dorsey had a conversation with greg walden. here's the exchange. >> in one example of many, important conservatives representatives have come to us and say they were not shown in the automatically populated drop-down searches on twitter. correct? than 300 the more active twitter users, why did this only happened to certain accounts? in other words, what did the algorithm take into account that led to prominent conservatives including members of...
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one of them, the energy and commerce committee chaired by greg walden who says this twitter is an incrediblyerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go viral when decisions about data and content are made using opaque processes. the american people are right to raise concerns. dorsey says that twitter employees have left-leaning political views. but added he was taking steps to make sure behind the scenes bias didn't affect public posts. so his testimony this week before energy and commerce in the house and the intel committee in the senate where dorsey will be joined by cheryl sandberg will be monitor bid conservatives. last weeks axios asked donald trump jr. who uses social media platforms what he thought of a theoretical conservative startup. trump jr. said this. i'd love to do it but what i'd prefer is take one of the two silicon valley conservatives and let them start it. i'd help promote the platform and be all over that. it is quiet here on the hill today. a bunch of lawmakers that rely on twitter to reach constituents and potential vote
one of them, the energy and commerce committee chaired by greg walden who says this twitter is an incrediblyerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go viral when decisions about data and content are made using opaque processes. the american people are right to raise concerns. dorsey says that twitter employees have left-leaning political views. but added he was taking steps to make sure behind the scenes bias didn't affect public posts. so his...
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right now we have got greg walden, chairman of the house committee, on energy and commerce, giving his statements we will bring you the q and a once it begins and goldman sachs has a change of heart when it comes to its crypto plans l osdeilahd well. just another day on the farm. or is it? this farmer's morning starts in outer space. where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. he uses watson to analyze his data with millions of weather forecasts from the cloud, and iot sensors down here, for precise monitoring of irrigation. it's a smart way to help increase yields, all before the rest of us get out of bed. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. >>> welcome back to plumplg. the etf that tracks emerging markets is down 5% over the past week week amid worries in independent indonesia and eight argentin argentina. let's bring in tim seymour tim, good the see you. >> good to be here, to t
right now we have got greg walden, chairman of the house committee, on energy and commerce, giving his statements we will bring you the q and a once it begins and goldman sachs has a change of heart when it comes to its crypto plans l osdeilahd well. just another day on the farm. or is it? this farmer's morning starts in outer space. where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. he uses watson to analyze his data with millions of weather forecasts from the...
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as well as full committee chairman greg walden and ranking member pallone for recognizing the importance of the cheney disposal cell and working to bring this bill to the floor. i'd urge my colleagues to be able to support this legislation and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: i have no additional speakers. i am prepared to close. i urge my colleagues, mr. speaker, to support the legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from west virginia. mr. mckinley: mr. speaker, in closing, again, this is the last remaining disposal site that we need to keep open and i appreciate the support and i applaud the work of my colleague from colorado, mr. tipton, for his efforts to see this and ms. degette and the bipartisan nature of the cooperation between two of them to get this done and i call upon members to support this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house -- pardon me -- mr. mckinley: and i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back.
as well as full committee chairman greg walden and ranking member pallone for recognizing the importance of the cheney disposal cell and working to bring this bill to the floor. i'd urge my colleagues to be able to support this legislation and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: i have no additional speakers. i am prepared to close. i urge my colleagues, mr. speaker, to support the legislation. i yield back. the speaker pro...
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i want to thank the subcommittee chairman, fred upton of michigan, the full committee chairman, greg walden of oregon, the full committee ranking member who's on the floor, mr. pallone of new jersey. we've all worked in a bipartisan basis to pass this, and we think that's why we put it on the suspension calendar. as you know, madam speaker, a suspension bill has to get a 2/3 vote, and i'm hoping this bill gets 100% vote. it's a good bill. it's a win-win. with that, madam speaker, i would reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is now recognized. mr. pallone: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 6511, the strategic petroleum reserve reform act. this bill would set up a pilot program to facilitate the leasing of unused storage space in the strategic petroleum reserve, or s.p.r., while attempting to ensure the government and taxpayers benefit from these leases. this is a worthy cause, and i commend representatives barton and rush for their efforts. in
i want to thank the subcommittee chairman, fred upton of michigan, the full committee chairman, greg walden of oregon, the full committee ranking member who's on the floor, mr. pallone of new jersey. we've all worked in a bipartisan basis to pass this, and we think that's why we put it on the suspension calendar. as you know, madam speaker, a suspension bill has to get a 2/3 vote, and i'm hoping this bill gets 100% vote. it's a good bill. it's a win-win. with that, madam speaker, i would...
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it was during that conversation went jack dorsey had a conversation with greg walden.e's the exchange. >> in one example of many, important conservatives representatives have come to us and say they were not shown in the automatically populated drop-down searches on twitter. correct? than 300 the more active twitter users, why did this only happened to certain accounts? in other words, what did the algorithm take into account that led to prominent conservatives including members of the u.s. house of representatives not being included in auto search populations? >> thank you for the question. we use hundreds of signals to determine and decide what to show and what to down break or potentially, what to filter. in this particular case, we were using a signal of the behavior of the people following accounts. , upon didn't believe further consideration and seeing the impact -- which was about 600,000 accounts, a pretty broad base, that it was ultimately fair so we did decide to correct that. wasn't decided that it fair to use this signal for filtering in general. so we deci
it was during that conversation went jack dorsey had a conversation with greg walden.e's the exchange. >> in one example of many, important conservatives representatives have come to us and say they were not shown in the automatically populated drop-down searches on twitter. correct? than 300 the more active twitter users, why did this only happened to certain accounts? in other words, what did the algorithm take into account that led to prominent conservatives including members of the...