{"id":100068,"date":"2020-10-28T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-twitter-google-ceos-testify-before-senate\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:00:01","slug":"facebook-twitter-google-ceos-testify-before-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-twitter-google-ceos-testify-before-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs testify before Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Facebook<\/a>, Twitter, Google CEOs testify before Senate<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The CEOs of three of the nation\u2019s top tech firms \u2014 Google, Twitter and Facebook \u2014 are being grilled by a Senate panel on Wednesday after coming under fire over censorship concerns, specifically for blocking The Post\u2019s reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings in Ukraine and China.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg argued in his opening statement that while Section 230 needs to be changed, going too far could result in the companies being even more restrictive concerning what they publish on their platforms that could get them in legal trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout Section 230, platforms could potentially be held liable for everything people say,\u201d Zuckerberg explained.<\/p>\n

But that \u201cCongress should update the law to make sure it\u2019s working as intended,\u201d and that \u201cWe stand ready to work with Congress on what regulation in these areas could look like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wicker kicked off the hearing raising Twitter and Facebook\u2019s blocking The Post\u2019s story, claiming it was based on hacked materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is worth noting that both Twitter and Facebook\u2019s aversion to hacked materials has not always been so stringent. For example, when the president\u2019s tax returns were illegally leaked, neither company acted to restrict access to that information. Similarly to the now discredited Steele dossier was widely shared without that check or disclaimers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He raised a warning that the tech companies have become too powerful.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy concern is that these platforms have become powerful arbiters of what is true and what content users can access. The American public gets little insight into the decision-making process when content is moderated and users have a little recourse when they are censored or restricted,\u201d Wicker said.<\/p>\n

Piggybacking off of an earlier grilling of Dorsey by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson pressed the Twitter head on whether the company had any evidence that Hunter Biden emails were doctored or an example of foreign disinformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t,\u201d Dorsey flatly replied.<\/p>\n

And pressed on why Twitter stemmed the story\u2019s spread under its \u201chacked materials\u201d policy \u2014 despite The Post clearly explaining the origin of the Hunter Biden documents \u2014 Dorsey too conceded that they had no evidence of a hack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe judged in the moment,\u201d he said. \u201cIt looked like it was hacked materials.\u201d
Interjected Johnson, \u201cYou were wrong!\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson turned the question to Zuckerberg and Facebook, which did not delete coverage of the story outright but throttled its spread pending an independent fact-check.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe relied heavily on the FBI\u2019s intelligence and alerts,\u201d said Zuckerberg, who admitted that the feds hadn\u2019t given them any specific warning about The Post\u2019s story. \u201cThey alerted us to be on heightened alert around a risk of hack-and-leak operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t censor the content. We flagged it for fact-checkers to review,\u201d Zuckerberg continued. \u201cPending that review, we temporarily constrained its distribution to make sure that it didn\u2019t spread wildly while it was being reviewed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under follow-up questioning by Wicker, both Dorsey and Zuckerberg confirmed that they had no independent evidence that the Hunter Biden email trove is Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n

Sen. Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, questioned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey why the social media platform flagged a posting from President Trump about mail-in ballots, but allowed tweets that \u201cglorify violence\u201d against Israel by Iranian President ali Khamenei to remain untouched.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Dorsey, is that acceptable, based on your policies?\u201d Wicker asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe it\u2019s important for everyone to hear from global leaders,\u201d Dorsey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that we are respecting their right to speak and to publish what they need. But if there\u2019s a violation of our terms of service,\u201d Twitter will label it as doing so.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo they violate your terms of service,\u201d Wicker pressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not find those to violate our terms of service, because we consider them part of the speech of world leaders in concert with other countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) followed up that line of questioning by raising tweets from Iran\u2019s ayatollah Hosseini Khamenei denying the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

He asked Dorsey if Twitter considered that \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody who denied the Holocaust is not misinformation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The tech bosses are answering questions about their business practices, the blocking of The Post\u2019s story, and rolling back liability protections the tech giants receive from Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.<\/p>\n

Dorsey called for \u201cthoughtfulness and restraint\u201d and told lawmakers that eroding the law \u201ccould collapse how we communicate on the Internet, leaving only a small number of giant and well-funded technology<\/a> companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the Post\u2019s Biden expos\u00e9, Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said his agency would work to \u201cclarify the meaning\u201d of Section 230.<\/p>\n

Pichai said Google conducts its business without political favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo do otherwise would be contrary to both our business interests and our mission, which compels us to make information accessible to every type of person, no matter where they live or what they believe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey and Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg<\/span>Getty Images (3)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) questioned each of the CEOs about political ideology at their companies after pointing out that Facebook\u2019s election integrity expert was a staffer when Joe Biden served as vice president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think having a balance is valuable. We try to do that,\u201d Zuckerberg said. \u201cI am not aware of the example of someone in charge of this process who worked for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dorsey said it\u2019s important to be transparent about the platforms processes and policies, and it is \u201cindependent of the viewpoints that our employees hold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pichai said Google routinely works and consults with third party organizations across both sides \u201cwhen we develop our policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump accused Twitter and Facebook of interfering in the election by censoring The Post\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Sinclair Broadcast Group, Trump said the tech companies were \u201ctrying to protect\u201d Biden, his Democratic presidential challenger, but \u201cthey got caught and that\u2019s turning out to be just as big a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if it constitutes election interference, Trump said, \u201cYeah, 100 percent.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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