Facebook, Twitter CEOs to testify to US Senate panel over content moderation decisions – Latest News
In October, Republican lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee voted unanimously to approve formal summons for Fb’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. Democrats on the panel didn’t vote on the subpoena. The subpoenas have been accredited proper after the social media platforms determined to dam tales from the New York Publish that made claims concerning the son of then Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Tuesday’s listening to is predicted to be extremely political.
Zuckerberg and Dorsey together with Alphabet-owned Google‘s Sundar Pichai additionally appeared earlier than the Senate Commerce Committee in October for a listening to the place Republican lawmakers questioned the businesses about their content material moderation selections. The listening to shortly was a political scuffle with lawmakers attacking one another.
Upset over the businesses’ resolution on what to go away on the platform and what to take down, many Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump have threatened to remove protections for web firms underneath a federal regulation referred to as Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The regulation protects firms from getting sued over materials customers put up on their platforms.
Biden, now President-elect, has additionally stated he favors repealing Part 230. Congressional Democrats, nonetheless, desire a extra deliberate method to reforming the regulation.
On the listening to in October, Twitter’s Dorsey stated that eroding Part 230 might considerably damage how folks talk on-line. Zuckerberg stated he helps altering the regulation but in addition stated that tech platforms have been more likely to censor extra to keep away from authorized dangers if the regulation is repealed.
