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portal in san francisco, so any way. thank you. >>commissioner cleaveland: thank you, commissioner hardeman. vice president nakajo. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you, mr. president. just as a point of clarification, i know and will need feedback in terms of this particular item. in terms of september the 25, we're scheduled for a retreat. i believe you said the retreat time is between 10:00 and 3:00. and for myself, it would be nice, mr. president, if there could be clarity addressed to agenda and schedule, meaning, what time we're coming, what are we talking about. i understand we're going to have a facilitator, which for myself, i don't recall the facilitator that was exchanged for the retreat. >>commissioner cleaveland: none is setup at this point because neither that i talked to are available. >> commissioner nakajo: okay. and i didn't realize that we have a budget for facilitator, and so i assume that's going to be taken care of, who are the facilitator is in the budget. so i just wanted to get more of the information. and i think between 10:00 and 3:00, there's lunch scheduled, and my clarity, is it a working lunch or social lunch? and just for

mr. dorsey? >> we have also learned a lot from elections around the world and most recently, the mexican election we have opened a new portal to cover that election that allows any journalist or government law enforcement to actually report any suspicious behavior very quickly to us so we can take more actions otherwise we have been investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning models to again recognize the patterns of behavior because we believe this is where the greatest leverage will come, from how people will amplify information, and shutting it down before it spreads, into the shared spaces of twitter and more broadly as it applies to a tweet. >> i want to get to the basic issue of whether our incentives in this case are aligned to deal with these challenges. if your users were to lose confidence in your platforms, in the authenticity of what you, mr. dorsey, called a public square, i might call it a digital public square, i assume there would be very serious economic implications for your companies. do you think the incentives have aligned for platform providers of all types in the digital space to want to

mr. dorsey: we have benefited from learning from recent elections like the mexican election and we're able to test and refine a bunch of that work accordingly. we're doing a few things. we're opening portals that allow partners and journalists to report anything suspicious that they see so we can take much faster action. second, we are utilizing more technology to identify where people are trying to artificially amplify information to steer or detract the conversation. third, we have a much stronger partnership with law enforcement, federal law enforcement to make sure that we are getting a regular cadence of meetings that we are seeing more of the trends going on and that we can understand intent behind these accounts and activities so we can act much faster as well. ms. schakowsky: i appreciate that. that's where the emphasis ought to be. i have to tell you the president and the republicans have concocted this idea of a supposed anti-conservative bias to, it seems to me, distract from the fact that the -- that their majority has absolutely done nothing to prevent foreign governments from using social media platforms to spread misinformation. and if we don't do that, then i think our dem