created on October 1, 2020 shows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
(L) in Washington, DC on October 17, 2019, and Twitter CEO Jack
Dorsey in Washington, DC, on September 5, 2018. AFP
The top executives of Facebook and Twitter were set to
appear before US lawmakers for the second time in less than a month
for a fresh hearing on the hotly disputed role of social networks
in US political debate.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey were
scheduled to appear remotely at the hearing before the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
Both executives were testifying “voluntarily,” according to the
panel.
Committee chair Senator Lindsey Graham called the session to
address what he called “censorship and suppression of news
articles” and the “handling of the 2020 election” by the
platforms.
Graham said the panel would notably address the decision by both
social platforms to limit circulation of New York Post articles
which claimed to have exposed malfeasance by Democrat Joe Biden
ahead of his election victory.
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President Donald Trump and his allies have claimed the major
social platforms have suppressed conservative voices, despite his
own large following and prolific posting.
The session follows an October 28 hearing at a different Senate
committee — which included Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar
Pichai — on the legal immunity of online services for content
posted by others on their platforms.
Some lawmakers last month complained that the platforms were
becoming biased “arbiters” of content and unfairly suppressing
conservative voices.
The large networks have been struggling with ways to filter out
abusive content and misinformation while keeping their platforms
open to all voices.
AFP
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