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Graham Asks Zuckerberg, Dorsey Whether Government Should Regulate Social Media
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1:17Now PlayingFacebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter Inc.’s Jack Dorsey will be forced to defend themselves from accusations by Republican senators that their labeling of President Donald Trump’s social-media posts claiming voter fraud as false or misleading amounts to censorship of conservative content.
The chief executive officers of the social networks are scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in their second congressional appearance in a month to defend themselves against charges of silencing conservatives.
The session is likely to focus on Twitter and Facebook’s handling of Trump’s statements about the election process and outcome, many of which have been labeled as false or misleading, as well as their treatment of an October story in the New York Post that was seen as potentially damaging to Democrat Joe Biden.
During a tense hearing that month, Zuckerberg and Dorsey heard complaints that they were trying to tip the scales for Biden in the election ahead. Now they’re facing a GOP that for the most part hasn’t recognized Biden as the president-elect.
The censorship complaints aren’t the CEOs’ only political problem: Many conservative users are trying out a competitor, Parler Inc., that courts right-wing influencers. Some moving to Parler are urging others to follow them there. The social media sites must also watch for hints about what policies will be adopted by President-elect Biden, who has expressed concerns about some of the companies’ practices.
Dorsey will make similar arguments to the ones he made last month, raising the possibility that users could customize their feeds through “algorithmic choice,” which would let them pick between different methods for determining what they see in their feed, according to a copy of his prepared testimony. Right now, that solution is theoretical, but Dorsey envisions a world where users have multiple algorithms to choose from, including some that are created outside of the social networking companies themselves.
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