The Section 230 Senate Hearing

The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google testify before the Senate on Oct. 28 about reforms to the legal protections social media companies enjoy.

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The questions the CEOs declined to answer
Protocol
Each of the CEOs said they'd "get back" to lawmakers in response to various questions. Every congressional hearing with the tech CEOs has been rife …
Nov 17, 2020
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5 fact-checks from the Senate’s hearing on social media
Recode - Shirin Ghaffary
Six days ahead of a historic presidential election whose outcome is expected to shape the future of US democracy and as Congress delays passing a new economic stimulus deal to aid millions of unemployed...
Oct 28, 2020
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Republicans accuse Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and other Big Tech CEOs of violating their free speech rights
Recode - Sara Morrison
CEOs from two of the biggest companies in the world (and Twitter) testified in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in a hearing that was billed as a deliberation over Section 230. It ended...
Oct 28, 2020
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Reddit worries it’s going to be crushed in the fight against Big Tech
Protocol
Reddit's general counsel says attacks on Section 230 ignore that there are different kinds of moderation. Benjamin Lee, Reddit's general counsel, gets …
Oct 30, 2020
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Mark Zuckerberg just told Congress to upend the internet
The Verge - Adi Robertson
Facebook supports rewriting Section 230, and it’s starting to lay out the changes it wants. That’s the big takeaway from a nearly four-hour grilling of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar...
Oct 29, 2020