3 social media CEOs face grilling by GOP senators on bias

The Senate Commerce Committee has summoned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai to testify for a hearing Wednesday. The executives agreed to appear remotely after being threatened with subpoenas.

Beyond questioning the CEOs, senators are expected to examine proposals to revise long-held legal protections for online speech, an immunity that critics in both parties say enables the companies to abdicate their responsibility to impartially moderate content. In their opening statements prepared for the hearing, Dorsey, Zuckerberg and Pichai addressed the proposals for changes to so-called Section 230, a provision of a 1996 law that has served as the foundation for unfettered speech on the internet. Zuckerberg said Congress "should update the law to make sure it's working as intended."

Pichai urged lawmakers "to be very thoughtful about any changes to Section 230 and to be very aware of the consequences those changes might have on businesses and consumers." Social media giants are also under heavy scrutiny for their efforts to police misinformation about the election. Twitter and Facebook have slapped a misinformation label on content from the president, who has around 80 million followers. Trump has raised the baseless prospect of mass fraud in the vote-by-mail process.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have scrambled to stem the tide of material that incites violence and spreads lies and baseless conspiracy theories.

I stopped reading when you wrote 'unfounded allegations'. You are not a new agency.

My drunk uncle who drives drunk all the time is grilling the cops because of his 5 DUIs while my sober uncle has no DUIs. 🤷‍♂️

Jack looks like his entire time is spent eating weed.

Twitter needs to answer for their ways !

There all lying mfkers!!

So, if I understand this correctly; trump demanded social media stop spreading fake news about him, but when social media pointed out trump’s fake news, they were being unfair to him & the republicans?

Human filth, all of them.

Isn’t it time for these CEO’s to just tell the Senators to just bugger off...

There is no bias, it is just being fair is not in favour of Republicans. Just imagine if the situation was favourable like 2016 when Republicans could run any dirt on Democrats then any bias was going to be dismissed as a hoax by Republicans!

CTV should be included.

All of a sudden free speech has been squashed

SpeakeasyJames Good, bring it on.

CTV is as corrupt as Biden, Cdn media is failing to do it's job, looking the other way at corruption.

Brainwashed Canadians

Two look like men and the other looks like a drunk baby.

There is bias in the Canadian news media.... 99% of Trump stories are negative and inaccurate...yet Biden stories are 99% positive but inaccurate

WHO KNEW? billionaires actually get put on the hot seat from time to time, they actually have to work for those unreal fortunes.

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