Combination of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO and Sundar Pichai, Google CEO.
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The CEOs of several major technology companies will again testify before Congress next month, this time to discuss misinformation about their platforms.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will attend members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 25.
In a statement announcing the new hearing, the Chamber’s E&C Committee leaders pointed to false claims about the Covid-19 vaccine and alleged electoral fraud that proliferated on social media platforms.
“For a long time, big technology did not recognize the role it played in promoting and raising blatantly false information for its online audience. Industry self-regulation has failed,” said committee chairman Frank Pallone, DN.J., Communications and Subcommittee on Technology Mike Doyle, D-Pa., and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Trade, Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said in a statement. “We must begin the work of changing the incentives that drive social media companies to allow and even promote disinformation and disinformation.”
Of the three, Zuckerberg made the most appearances in Congress just last year. The March hearing will mark its fourth time testifying before Congress since July. For Pichai and Dorsey, it will be the third in this period.
Last year, Zuckerberg and Pichai appeared before lawmakers for hearings that investigated their competitive behavior and questioned the shield of responsibility that protects their industry. Dorsey also attended the last hearing, as well as alongside Zuckerberg, in front of a different committee on censorship allegations on their platforms, which they denied.
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