The Chamber’s Energy and Commerce Committee convened a new hearing on platform misinformation to include testimonials from Facebook, Google and Twitter. Scheduled for March 25, the hearing will be a joint effort by the Communications and Technology subcommittee and the Consumer and Trade Defense subcommittee.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are scheduled to testify.
“This hearing will continue the Committee’s work to hold online platforms accountable for the growing increase in disinformation and disinformation,” said the committee chairs in a joint statement. “For a long time, great technologies have failed to recognize the role they played in promoting and raising blatantly false information for their online audience. The industry’s self-regulation failed. We must start working to change the incentives that drive social media companies to allow and even promote disinformation and disinformation. “
Dorsey and Zuckerberg were previously summoned to Congress in November for an impromptu hearing by the Senate Judiciary on moderation and disinformation labeling. However, this will be the first hearing that they will attend since the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol and the various platform efforts that followed. Since then, all three companies have removed former President Donald Trump from their platforms (in the case of Google, via YouTube), actions that remain deeply controversial among Republicans.