The House Energy and Commerce Committee has called a new trial on misinformation on platform to include evidence from Facebook, Google and Twitter. The trial is scheduled for March 25 and is a joint effort of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Trade.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, and Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, will all testify.
“This hearing will continue the work of the committee to hold online platforms accountable for the increasing increase in misinformation and disinformation,” the chairmen of the committees said in a joint statement. ‘For too long, big tech has failed to recognize the role they played in promoting blatantly false information among its online audiences. Self-regulation in the industry has failed. We need to start changing the incentives that drive social media businesses to allow and even promote misinformation and misinformation. ”
Dorsey and Zuckerberg were previously called before Congress in November for improvising the Senate on moderating and labeling misinformation. However, this will be the first trial they have attended since the January 6 attack on the American Capitol and the various attempts that followed. All three companies have since removed former President Donald Trump from their platforms (in the case of Google through YouTube), actions that remain deeply controversial among Republicans.