Pratica di Shadowing: Zuckerberg and Senator Hawley clash in fiery child safety hearing - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Mr. Zuckerberg, let me start with you.
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Did I hear you say in your opening statement that there's no link between mental health and social media use?
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Senator, what I said is I think it's important to look at the science.
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I know it's people widely talk about this as if that is something that's already been proven.
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And I think that the bulk of the scientific evidence does not support that.
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Well, really, let me just remind you of some of the science from your own company.
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Instagram studied the effect of your platform on teenagers.
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Let me just read you some quotes from the Wall Street Journal's report on this.
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Company researchers found that Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of teenagers, most notably teenage girls.
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Here's a quote from your own study.
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Quote, we make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.
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Here's another quote.
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Teens blamed Instagram.
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This is your study for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression.
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This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.
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That's your study.
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Senator, we try to understand the feedback and how people feel about the services.
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We can improve.
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Wait a minute.
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Your own study says that you make life worse for one in three teenage girls.
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You increase anxiety and depression.
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That's what it says.
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And you're here testifying to us in public that there's no link.
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You've been doing this for years.
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For years you've been coming in public and testifying under oath that there's absolutely no link.
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Your product is wonderful.
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The science is nascent.
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Full speed ahead.
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While internally you know full well your product is a disaster for teenagers.
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And yet you keep right on doing what you're doing.
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Right?
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That's not true.
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That's not true.
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Let me show you some other facts I know that you're familiar with.
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You can carry the data points if you want.
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That's not a question.
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That's not a question.
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Those are facts, Mr. Zuckerberg.
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That's not a question.
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Those aren't facts.
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Let me show you some more facts.
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Here are some information from a whistleblower who came before the Senate, testified under oath in public.
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He worked for you.
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He's a senior executive.
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Here's what he showed he found when he studied your products.
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So, for example, this is girls between the ages of 13 and 15 years old.
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37 percent of them reported that they had been exposed to nudity on the platform unwanted in the last seven days.
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Twenty four percent said that they had experienced unwanted sexual advances.
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They've been propositioned in the last seven days.
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17% said they had encountered self-harm content pushed at them in the last seven days.
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Now, I know you're familiar with these stats because he sent you an email where he lined it all out.
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I mean, we've got a copy of it right here.
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My question is, who did you fire for this?
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Who got fired because of that?
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Senator, we study all this because it's important and we want to improve our services.
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Well, you just told me a second ago that you studied it, but there was no linkage. Who did you fire?
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I said you mischaracterized 37% of teenage girls between 13 and 15 were exposed to unwanted nudity in a week on Instagram.
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You knew about it.
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Who did you fire?
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Senator, this is why we're building all.
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Who did you fire?
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Senator, that's I don't think that that's who did you fire?
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I'm not going to answer that.
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Because you didn't fire anybody, right?
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You didn't take any significant action.
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It's appropriate to talk about individual HR decisions.
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Do you know who's sitting behind you?
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You've got families from across the nation whose children are either severely harmed or gone,
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and you don't think it's appropriate to talk about steps that you took?
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The fact that you didn't fire a single person?
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Let me ask you this.
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Let me ask you this.
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Have you compensated any of the victims?
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Sorry?
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Have you compensated any of the victims?
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These girls, have you compensated them?
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I don't believe so.
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Why not?
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Don't you think they deserve some compensation for what your platform has done?
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Help with counseling services, help with dealing with the issues that your services caused?
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Our job is to make sure that we build tools to help keep people safe.
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Are you going to compensate them?
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Senator, our job and what we take seriously is making sure
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that we build industry living tools to find harmful to make money, take it off the services to make money and to build tools that empower parents.
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So you didn't take any action.
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You didn't take any action.
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You didn't fire anybody.
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You haven't compensated a single victim.
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Let me ask you this.
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Let me ask you this.
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There's families of victims here today.
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Have you apologized to the victims?
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I Would you like to do so now?
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Well, they're here.
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You're on national television.
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Would you like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed by your product?
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Show them the pictures.
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Would you like to apologize for what you've done to these good people?
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm not going to go through the things that your families have suffered.
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And this is why we invested so much.
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And everybody, you do the street being efforts to make sure that.
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No one has to go through the types of things that your families have had to suffer.
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You know, why?
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Why, Mr. Zuckerberg, why should your company not be sued for this?
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Why is it that you can claim you hide behind a liability shield?
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You can't be held accountable.
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Shouldn't you be held accountable personally?
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Will you take personal responsibility?
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Senator, I think I've already answered this.
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I mean, this is.
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We'll try it again.
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Will you take personal responsibility?
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Senator, I view my job and the job of our company is building the best tools
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that we can to keep our community safe.
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Well, you're failing at that.
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Well, Senator, we're doing an industry-leading effort.
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We build AI tools that...
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Oh, nonsense.
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Your product is killing people.
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Will you personally commit to compensating the victims?
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You're a billionaire.
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Will you commit to compensating the victims?
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Will you set up a compensation fund with your money?
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Senator, I think these are complicated...
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With your money.
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Senator, these are complicated issues.
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Yes, no, that's not a complicated question, though.
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That's a yes or no. Will you set up a victim's compensation fund with your money, the money you made on these families sitting behind you?
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Yes or no?
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Senator, I don't think that that's...
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My job is to make sure we build good tools.
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My job is to make sure that your job is to be responsible for what your company has done.
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You've made billions of dollars on the people sitting behind you here.
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You've done nothing to help them.
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You've done nothing to compensate them.
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You've done nothing to put it right.
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You could do so here today, and you should.
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You should, Mr. Zuckerberg.

Informazioni su questa lezione

In questa lezione, avrai l'opportunità di imparare l'inglese con YouTube, concentrandoti sul dialogo tra il senatore Hawley e Mark Zuckerberg durante un'udienza sulla sicurezza dei minori. Analizzeremo come utilizzare il linguaggio in contesti formali e come esprimere opinioni e contestazioni in inglese. Questa lezione ti aiuterà a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la comprensione della lingua parlata in situazioni reali, fornendoti gli strumenti necessari per affrontare conversazioni difficili.

Vocabolario e frasi chiave

  • Mental health - salute mentale
  • Link - collegamento
  • Evidence - prove
  • Anxiety - ansia
  • Depression - depressione
  • Exposure - esposizione
  • Unwanted advances - avances indesiderate
  • Self-harm - autolesionismo

Consigli per la pratica

Per sfruttare al meglio il tuo shadowing in inglese, ascolta attentamente il video e ripeti le frasi subito dopo averle udite, mantenendo il ritmo del parlato originale. La registrazione ha un tono intenso e incisivo, quindi presta attenzione all'intonazione e alla pronuncia delle parole. Inizia con brevi segmenti di dialogo e aumenta gradualmente la lunghezza delle frasi man mano che ti senti più sicuro. Questa tecnica, nota come shadowspeak, ti aiuterà a migliorare non solo la tua pronuncia ma anche la tua capacità di articolare concetti complessi. Ricorda di rimanere concentrato sulle emozioni trasmesse dai relatori, poiché questo ti aiuterà a comprendere meglio il contesto e ad usare espressioni corrette nelle discussioni future.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.