WATCH LIVE: Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs testify on Capitol Hill — 3/25/21

Communications and Technology Subcommittee and the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote joint hearing on misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify.

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WATCH LIVE: Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs testify on Capitol Hill — 3/25/21

[jeanahull]

What about the biggest issue of Children being sold on these platforms?

[scottswarthout]

Who gets to decide what is the truth and what is disinformation? The government gets to decide?

[afroninjaya]

The people should see this before you silence the voices

[foobarbazbaa]

This is not about technical capability, it's about government passing
the buck to media companies that have no business deciding what's "true"
or not. Do we really want a world where Twitter, Facebook and Google
get to decide what is "misinformation"? It's ridiculous and even more
ridiculous that we as citizens are demanding this.

[kimbrown]

Outlaw phones with internet for kids. If parents didn't buy phones with internet kids wouldn't have Facebook.

[AngeofDrkness]

Spread Misinfo ... where are the news media companies?

I love thought right away they want a yes or no, and to me I was going "oh great they could totally ask questions of context". Seems I wasn't the only one to see that. Typical politicians though, have no clue how tech actually works (I can't roll my eyes any harder), like how much data these companies have to process

BTW I love how she talks about parents limiting screen time ... so you're saying that if kids are spending too much time, might be the parents fault?!?!?

[jeffpatrick]

Investing in crypto is the only big chance of making money

[filsdejeannoir]

6:01 EXACTLY THE SAME THING THAT IT MEANS FOR EVERYDAY HUMANS ANYWHERE! 😳 WHY DO THEY ALL THINK THE INTERNET IS ONLY IN AMERICA??!!

[LungYang]

Big companies without dedicated help call center. They prefer to respond by tweets and only if you have fame.

[filsdejeannoir]

4:44 Wow! They got billion dollar fines?! I didn't know! So they're hoping that huged fines would cause bankruptcy and forced sell-offs?

[Anonymous]

I don’t think ANY 13 YEAR OLD OR YOUNGER should have unsupervised access to websites or apps like this.

[Resdue]

These people are leading our country? Absolutely horrible...

[filsdejeannoir]

4:56 OK. WELL IF YOU'RE GOING TO 'LEGISLATE' TO STOP (I'M NOT COMPLETELY SURE WHAT ENTIRELY); THEN YOU DO NEED TO PUT TOGETHER A TEAM OF EXPERTS WITH RELEVANT TECH BACKROUNDS. BECAUSE RIGHT NOW; THIS COMMITTEE SEEMS BARELY ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERNET ON ANY LEVEL. AT THE MOMENT; THERE IS NO WAY TO FIND A COMMON GROUND FOR THE MOST BASIC LEVEL OF COMMUNICATION. SO IT'S COMPLETELY USELESS. 5:00 THE STAKES ARE NOT TOO HIGH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ANTI-VAX VIDEOS. THIS IS UTTER RUBBISH. THE STAKES ARE TOO HIGH WITH A. I. SUPERINTELLIGENCE AS WARNED BY ELON. YOU ARE DELIBERATELY IGNORING THAT REALITY BECAUSE YOU'RE DEVELOPING IT FOR YOUR DEFENSE SYSTEMS. YOU'LL HAPPILY SEE MANKIND EXTINCT AS LONG AS YOU CAN HAVE A SAY ON CURBING ZUCKERBERG'S PROFITS. YOU'RE A BUNCH OF FILTHY HYPOCRITS! 😢 You need to put together a committe of people who have a complete wholistic understanding of algorhythms; cookies; trackers; and all layers of the internet. And stop telling us off like we're a bunch of children when you yourselves are completely ignorant!

[aurorajellycrissramones]

Just wondering when the CEOs of Target, WalMart and Amazon are going to be heald accountable for unhealthiness of the American people. This whole thing is unnecessary and a abuse of power.

[filsdejeannoir]

54:45 NO. The minimum legal age for Facebook users is 13. Which site did the man use to take the inappropriate photos? What was Amanda doing online without strict parental supervision? How did the man 'follow her around the internet for years'? How did this elude her parents/parent. How did it elude the authorities? And if he sent the pictures of Amanda to her classmates on Facebook; how were the other parents and the authorities not alerted? What is the proof that Amanda turned to drugs and alcohol because of that photo? This story is not suitably fleshed out and the question is not a yes/no question. Yes Facebook was always dangerous for minors. But we all knew that and didn't just 'allow' our kids to use Facebook without careful monitoring. If your child is apprehended in a mall by a dangerous adult; will you hold the authority who built the mall partially responsible? Children are not 'safe' anywhere. They were never going to be safer on the internet than in the park! - THIS "YES OR NO" THING IS UNBEARABLY FASCISTIC! HOW ARE THEY ALLOWED TO DO THIS?! ASK INCREDIBLY COMPLEX QUESTIONS AND DEMAND A "YES OR NO"??!! THIS IS REALLY REALLY FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG! 55:47 OMG!! HE'S DOIN' THE SAME THING AS THE PALLONE MAN! "YOU SAY YES OR NO OR YOU DON'T GET TO TALK AND I'M NOT LISTENING."!!! SHOCKING! THIS IS JUST SHOCKING!!

[filsdejeannoir]

6:55 No. 2 billion users on Facebook is not enough! Still a small bubble. Absolutely not good enough! 7:08 Now I'm lost. "Facebook's executive decisions have a ripple effect throughout the world that result in American voices being removed from the market place of ideas." I need help. I don't understand what he's saying. It's too vague.

[Birdsworld]

Seems like if there is no American politics, these social media platforms would become quieter

[filsdejeannoir]

4:48 TECHNICAL EXPERTS IN GOVERNMENT! HALLELUJHA!! PLEASE FIND US SOME SENATORS WHO UNDERSTAND THE TECH! 'CAUSE THIS IS HARROWING!

[filsdejeannoir]

0:46 At this point; I have no idea which users don't recognise bots and bot co-ordination online. The kids are well on top of that one; and even the old people at this point! And what on earth does he mean by 'foreign' agents?! Is he suggesting that China or Russia or North Korea, for example are using co-ordinated bots on Twitter? We don't care! We the 'netizens' of the world are just trying to stay alive! We welcome any 'foreign' spybots that enable us to combat the Western corporate fascism which was behind the Jewish Holocaust and which is still very much in power today! 😳

[afroninjaya]

27:16 maybe you should parent your children