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2020 gives us another opportunity to watch Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai get grilled by the Congress.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey decided to testify nearly before the Senate Trade Committee on October 28th, said Politico on Friday night. Assuming that the hearing is live-streamed in some way, that means that you'll be able to see some of the most influential people in the world get grilled by policy makers who have recently debated reforming the laws that allow their businesses to expand at an unfathomable size.
The hearing, which will take place just six days before the US presidential election, will be the second big congressional hearing involving high tech CEOs this year; the House Antitrust Committee heard from Pichai, Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at the end of July. We heard a variety of fascinating things from their testimonies and the records released soon after the trial. It seems likely that we will hear more about how Facebook, Google , and Twitter work on the basis of what their CEOs claim in October.
.@Jack has voluntarily agreed to testify virtually before the @SenateCommerce Committee on October 28 — less than a week before the US Presidential Election.
— Twitter Public Policy (@Policy) October 2, 2020
It must be constructive & focused on what matters most to the American people: how we work together to protect elections
The hearing will concentrate on the defense of the obligation of Section 230, data privacy and media consolidation, according to Politico. A number of lawmakers have recently proposed proposals to try and amend Section 230, including a recently passed bill by Sen. Lindsay Graham and one by a coalition of Senate Republicans that stalled in June.
Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Dorsey's resolution came just one day after the committee voted to send a subpoena to the CEOs, while the CEOs later agreed to testify on a voluntary basis, Politico says. These possible subpoenas accompanied the formal demands submitted last week for CEOs to appear for testimony on 1 October.
