Janice Schakowsky

Congress expects internet companies to monitor their platforms and take down false, misleading, and harmful content.

I think I can speak for everyone on this committee when I say that we do not support harmful or racist rhetoric or disinformation online.

Section 230 protects business models that generate profits off scams, fake news, fake reviews, and unsafe, counterfeit, and stolen products.

I hope that Mr. Kaplan and Mr. Thiel will soon make it before Congress, make themselves available so that we can ask questions about what role they play.

The president is using his position to chill speech and that is just wrong.

The harms associated with misinformation and disinformation continue to fall disproportionately on communities of color, who already suffer worse outcomes from COVID-19.

Self-regulation really works. And I don't think that--I personally don't think that is true.

I think we need to work in a bipartisan way to make sure that we are keeping it out of future agreements

We need to be focused about on the health of our democracy and we need platforms to be serious about that.

Congress routinely, routinely regulates commercial activity to prevent harm harmful products from being sold, stop fraud, and deter illegal discrimination.

I have to disagree with you, Dr. Redfield. I think nowhere has the Trump administration's lack of leadership been more apparent than in our nation's nursing homes and long-term care facilities where we have lost 50,000 residents and…

Let me just say, this kind of suggesting and recommending has clearly not been enough, in my view.

So, why didn't you require nursing homes to report any data on COVID-19 cases and deaths until May, four months after--you may remember, you told me about the first case in Illinois--January 30th?

You are allowing facilities to literally kick residents out of--out onto the street if there is a more profitable COVID patient to take their place.

You have not required--required--states to conduct testing.

You delayed data collection on cases and deaths in nursing homes.

The City of Chicago has been deeply affected by environmental injustice, and we know that, in Chicago, African Americans account for 60 percent of the city's COVID-19-related deaths.

The COVID-19 crisis in our Nation's nursing homes and long-term care facilities is a national disgrace, and we have not seen help from the Trump administration.

At least 84,000 people have died in the United States from COVID-19, and almost 40 percent of those deaths are nursing home residents and the valiant workers in those nursing homes. We can and we must do better. The HEROES Act includes…

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These programs keep seniors, individuals with disabilities, and their families alive.

I am not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, and I am not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Unfortunately, these problems neither begin nor end at ports of entry. Fake reviews are becoming more and more widespread, and up to this point, the FTC has proven that it needs more tools to combat this growing concern for consumers.

I think most normal people wouldn't consider that a settlement at all. No money and no punishment.

Thank you, I yield back.