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00:00FIRST, I WANT TO STEP BACK AND SHARE OUR VIEW OF TWITTER'S ROLE IN THE WORLD. MANY PEOPLE USE TWITTER AS A PUBLIC SQUARE, TOGETHER FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING AND HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THEY SEE. IN ANY PUBLIC SPACE, YOU WILL FIND LIES AND DECEPTION. PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HELP OTHERS AND UNIFY, AND PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HURT OTHERS AND THEMSELVES AND DIVIDE. WHAT SEPARATES THE PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL PUBLIC SPACE IS GREATER ACCESSIBILITY AND VELOCITY. WE ARE EXTREMELY PROUD OF HELPING TO INCREASE THE ACCESSIBILITY AND VELOCITY OF A SIMPLE FREE AND OPEN EXCHANGE. WE BELIEVE PEOPLE WILL LEARN FASTER BY BEING EXPOSED TO A WIDE RANGE OF OPINIONS AND IDEAS AND IT HELPS MAKE OUR NATION AND THE WORLD FEEL A LITTLE BIT SMALLER. WE ARE NOT PROUD OF THAT -- OF HOW THAT FREE AND OPEN EXCHANGE HAS BEEN WEAPONIZE AND USED TO DISTRACT AND DIVIDE PEOPLE AND OUR NATION. WE FOUND OURSELVES UNPREPARED AND ILL-EQUIPPED FOR THE IMMENSITY OF THE PROBLEMS WE HAVEN'T KNOWLEDGED WE -- WE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED. ABUSE, HARASSMENT, TROLL ARMIES, PROPAGANDA, MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS AND DIVISIVE FILTER BUBBLES. THAT IS NOT A HEALTHY PUBLIC SQUARE. WORSE, A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF BAD ACTORS WERE ABLE TO GAIN TWITTER TO HAVE AN OUTSIZED IMPACT. OUR INTERESTS ARE ALIGNED WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THIS COMMITTEE. IF WE DON'T FIND SCALABLE SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS WE ARE NOW SEEING, WE LOSE OUR BUSINESS AND WE CONTINUE TO THREATEN THE ORIGINAL PRIVILEGE AND LIBERTY WE WERE GIVEN TO CREATE TWITTER IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE WERE NOT EXPECTING ANY OF THIS WHEN WE CREATED TWITTER OVER 12 YEARS AGO. WE KNOWLEDGE THE REAL WORLD NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT HAPPENED AND WE TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY TO FIX IT. WE CANNOT DO THIS ALONE AND THAT IS WHY THIS CONVERSATION IS IMPORTANT AND WHY I AM HERE. WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS RECENTLY ON TACTICAL SOLUTIONS LIKE IDENTIFICATION OF MANY FORMS OF MANIPULATION INTENDING TO ARTIFICIALLY AMPLIFY INFORMATION. MORE TRANSPARENCY AROUND ADS AND HOW THEY ARE TARGETED. CHALLENGING SUSPICIOUS LOGINS AND ACCOUNT CREATION. WE HAVE SEEN POSITIVE RESULTS FROM OUR WORK. WE ARE REMOVING 200% MORE ACCOUNTS FOR VIOLATING OUR POLICIES. WE ARE TO DEFINE AND CHALLENGING EIGHT TO 10 MILLION SUSPICIOUS ACCOUNTS EVERY WEEK. WE ARE AFFORDING OVER HALF A MILLION ACCOUNTS FROM LOGGING INTO TWITTER EVERY SINGLE DAY. WE HAVE LEARNED FROM 2016 AND MORE RECENTLY FROM OTHER NATIONS' ELECTIONS HOW TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF ELECTIONS. BETTER TOOLS, STRONGER POLICY AND NEW PARTNERSHIPS ARE ALREADY IN PLACE.

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