Combination of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO and Sundar Pichai, Google CEO.
Reuters
CEOs of several large technology companies will testify again before Congress next month, this time to discuss misinformation on their platforms.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear before House Energy and Commerce Committee members on March 25th.
In a statement announcing the new meeting, the leaders of the Chamber’s E&C Committee revealed false statements about the Covid-19 vaccine and alleged electoral fraud that proliferated on social media platforms.
“For too long, high technology has failed to recognize the role they have played in promoting and raising blatantly false information to its online audience. Industry self-regulation has failed,” Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, DN.J., Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle, D-Pa., and Consumer Protection and Trade Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said in a statement. “We need to start working to change the incentives that drive social media companies to allow and even promote misinformation and misinformation.”
Of the three, Zuckerberg has made the most appearances before Congress in the last year alone. The March hearing will mark the fourth time he has testified before Congress in July. For Pichai and Dorsey, it will be their third at the time.
Last year, Zuckerberg and Pichai both appeared before lawmakers for hearings that tested their competitive behavior and questioned the shield of responsibility that protects their industry. Dorsey also appeared at that last hearing, as well as with Zuckerberg, before another committee on allegations of censorship on their platforms, which they denied.
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