Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
House panel to hold election-security hearing with Facebook, Google, Twitter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top officials from Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter Inc will appear before U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a hearing on foreign influence and election security, the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee announced on Tuesday.
The remote hearing will discuss the technology industry’s actions since the 2016 U.S. elections, state-sponsored disinformation efforts, and other related issues as the country moves toward the Nov. 3 presidential contest, the panel said.
The hearing will also look at misinformation campaigns amid the novel coronavirus outbreak and recent protests over racism and policing.
The witnesses include Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security policy; Nick Pickles, director of Global Public Policy Strategy and Development at Twitter, and Richard Salgado, director for Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google.
The hearing comes as Americans are increasingly skeptical about social media companies’ ability to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, and trust the government even less to make those choices.
The debate over content moderation has intensified as Twitter and Facebook diverged on how to handle inflammatory posts by President Donald Trump, who in turn has accused social media companies of censorship.
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There will be no election this year. Watch and see. By that time I probably won’t be able to come here and say I told you so.
I think there may be an election this year -> as shitty as 1912 and we all know the Blue-wave path that set the country on.
Trump may as well just withdraw at this point.
Obama = Black Commie, Trump=Jewish plant, Kamala Harris after Biden gets elected an promptly resigns/gets 25th’d = Black Jewish FEMALE Whore Lawyer in the Oral Office.
honestly seems more accurate that a vote for Trump is a vote for (blue) cities burning. Violence and intimidation work. The left has made it clear they will kick and scream until they get their way and historically the Republicans are the party of caving in. I can see lot of moderates voting Biden just out of desperation for the chaos to end.
Voting has been useless for quite some time. Now, it’s just becoming more obvious. The PTB have removed all pretense and are showing it all. They do this because they think/know the public is not a threat. This is the end game. This is the collapse. America will die without so much as a whimper but rather with kissing the boots of blacks and the govt.
Wake me when they are appearing before a military tribunal for sedition and treason.
It would be a good moment to throw all of them in Gitmo for the duration.
Facebook has reached some sort of modus vivendi with Trump. One may note how Zuckerberg is now attacked by the Progs. He probably is more intent on owning and running his own show opposed to being dictated to by the mob. The Googles and Twitters etc. are absolutely an enemy camp and the fact they will have a show hearing chaired by scumfuque Schiff tells you there is already a pre-written conclusion. It won’t surprise any here that it will say Orange Man Baaaad! Non-communists baaaad!
oh crap, I read it all wrong. I thought the headline said “House panel to hold human rights celebration gala for leaders from China, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa”
If anyone wanted to know what Jim thought of social media, please refer to his useful management of blog post tags. 🙂 Wish I could do a keyword search on tag:”XYZ” though. There’s something special about searching for tag:”Fuck Google”.
That the house is wasting their own time and the FED’s printed money to have a meeting with tech giants in regards to “information” that has already BEEN PROVEN TO BE LIES is a farce, even for blatant, control-the-narrative-at-all-costs propaganda.
Either way, regardless of who wins, I don’t see a future without CW.