Combination of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google.
Reuters
CEOs of several major technology companies will testify before Congress next month, this time to discuss misinformation on their platforms.
On March 25, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear before members of the Trade and Energy Committee
In a statement announcing the new hearing, House E&C Committee leaders pointed out false claims about the Covid-19 vaccine and the alleged electoral fraud that has proliferated on social media platforms.
“For a long time, great technologies have failed to recognize the role they have played in encouraging and elevating blatantly false information to the online public. The self-regulation of the industry has failed,” said committee chairman Frank Pallone , DN.J., Communications and The Chair of the Technology Subcommittee, Mike Doyle, D-Pa., And the Chair of the Consumer Protection and Trade Subcommittee, Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Said in a statement. “We need to start the task of changing the incentives that lead social media companies to allow and even promote misinformation and misinformation.”
Of the three, Zuckerberg has made the most appearances before Congress in the last year alone. The March hearing will mark his fourth time he will testify before Congress since July. For Pichai and Dorsey, it will be the third in this period.
Last year, Zuckerberg and Pichai appeared before lawmakers for hearings investigating their competitive behavior and questioning the shield of responsibility that protects their industry. Dorsey also appeared at this last hearing, as well as alongside Zuckerberg, before a different committee on censorship allegations on their platforms, which they have denied.
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