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Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai called to answer for the role of tech and social media in fueling Capitol violence and extremism
5.02pm GMT
See this thread from Daphne Keller, the platform regulation director at Stanford Cyber Policy Center, on why it is so interesting Zuckerberg is lobbying for Section 230 reform and more regulation, when in the past Facebook had been very against such legislation.
This part of Zuckerberg’s testimony is a feat of geopolitical dexterity. 18 months ago, Facebook lost a major case about global content filtering in the EU. So now it’s telling Congress that *every* platform should be held to the standard imposed on FB by European courts. 1/ https://t.co/MT5GFnFab3
Anyhow… fast-forward 3 years, and Facebook is turning its jurisprudential lemons into lemonade. If Facebook has to build costly, flawed, and potentially human-rights-violating filters, then the U.S. Congress should make everyone else do it too. 12/
4.57pm GMT
Jack Dorsey of Twitter gave his opening statements after Pichai, seeming to be videoing in from a sleek kitchen somewhere. His opening statements were live tweeted from his account on Twitter. You can read them in full below.
Thank you Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee and its Subcommittees, for the opportunity to speak with the American people about how Twitter may be used to spread disinformation, and our solutions. My remarks will be brief so we can move to your questions and discussion. Continue reading...