Sources: CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on October 28; Twitter has confirmed Jack Dorsey will testify
less than a week before the US Presidential Election. It must be constructive & focused on what matters most to the American people: how we work together to protect elections Lauren Feiner / @lauren_feiner : Twitter commits to voluntarily having CEO Jack Dorsey testify before the Senate Commerce Committee after members unanimously authorized subpoenas for him and the CEOs of Google and Facebook. https://twitter.com/... Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung : So just saying this (not an ad, but because media)...with the Senate Commerce Committee scheduled to grill CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google on Oct. 28, maybe good time to sign up for @platformer. https://www.politico.com/... @gregbensinger : Twitter comms: maybe no one will notice if we tweet this now https://twitter.com/... Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek : Spare some outrage for this: Congress is holding a hearing right before the election where tech CEOs will be battered abt political bias. Hard to imagine how that won't loom in decision-making now and later. That's the point. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : So... - Senate has bipartisan vote to subpoena now confirms CEOs of Google and Facebook to testify - Justice Dept to file antitrust suit against Google - Congress to publish antitrust report on Google and Facebook after multi year investigation ..but @Jim_Jordan is fighting it??? https://twitter.com/... Daphne Keller / @daphnehk : Here's a Politico article saying that the barrage of anti-CDA 230 proposals from Congressional Republicans in the past few weeks is all about Trump, who brings it up every time they talk to him. https://www.politico.com/... @politico : The Trump administration is pressuring Senate Republicans to ratchet up scrutiny of social media companies it sees as biased against conservatives in the run-up to the November election. And the effort appears to be paying off. https://www.politico.com/...