Policy executives for Meta, Microsoft, and Google testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee about election threats.
Top policy executives from Meta, Microsoft, and Google testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about what they’re doing to protect US voters from foreign election threats in 2024. But the elephant in the room was the pressure campaign social media companies have faced from the right to take a more hands-off approach when it comes to labeling or demoting misinformation.
” But, he said, “there’s a difference when foreign intelligence services cherry-pick and amplify it.” The line between unconstitutional government coercion and permissible pressure was at issue in a recent Supreme Court case, Murthy v. Missouri. Republican attorneys general had accused the Biden administration of coercing tech platforms to remove or demote speech like covid-19 disinformation, leading to temporary restrictions on the White House’s communication with tech platforms.
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