Social-Media
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey to give their evidence to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on 17 November. The hearing will concentrate on the surveillance and suppression channels for New York Post articles and offer a critical venue to review the company's handling of the 2020 elections, according to a press release.
Last week, the New York Post published a report reporting that Hunter Biden had introduced his father, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, to an executive at the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. Reporters in other outlets have denied the claims in the article, and both Facebook and Twitter have taken steps to minimize the dissemination of the article.
Facebook narrowed the scale of the article and said it was eligible for third-party fact-checking. Twitter forbade the news entirely, but ultimately overturned the position. Dorsey has already said that Twitter's contact on why it wanted to block the URL of the story was "not perfect."
The CEOs appear on a voluntary basis, while yesterday the committee accepted subpoenas that would have required the two men to testify. Zuckerberg and Dorsey will both testify before the Senate Trade Committee on 28 October, where they will be joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The hearing relies on Section 230 of the Media Decency Act.
