Enlarge / There was no fancy Hill listening to room for this all-virtual occasion, so Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dialed in from… a kitchen. (credit score: Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs)
A trio of main tech CEOs—Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, Fb’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey—as soon as once more went earlier than Congress this week to clarify their roles within the social media ecosystem. The listening to nominally targeted on disinformation and extremism, significantly within the wake of the January 6 occasions on the US Capitol. However as at all times, the members asking the questions continuously ventured far afield.
The listening to targeted much less on particular posts than earlier Congressional grillings, however it was primarily an train in individuals speaking to plant their stakes. Thought-about in totality, pretty little of substance was completed throughout the listening to’s prolonged six-hour runtime.
Nonetheless, a number of essential coverage nuggets did handle to return up.
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