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Ron Johnson: “They clung to an algorithm that they were warned was going…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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THEY HID THE DATA

Published | Video Starts at 12:13

Nobody wants to admit they're wrong. Nobody wants to see this kind of evidence. That's why they turned a blind's eye to it. That's why They clung to an algorithm that they were warned was going to mask the signals. When they heard that, they probably went, great, great, we can keep flying the American public and have backed up by this algorithm. Nobody's going to understand the algorithm that says there's no safety signals. (12:13–12:18)

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Asserts that officials used an algorithm that masked safety signals despite warnings.

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