Facebook, Twitter CEOs to testify before US Senate over content moderation

The hearing was expected to be highly political, as indicated in Chairman Lindsey Graham's opening remarks

The chief executives of Facebook and Twitter testified before a congressional hearing on Tuesday that questioned their content moderation practices as Republicans accuse social media companies of censoring conservative speech.
 
In October, Republican lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee voted unanimously to approve formal summons for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey.
 
Democrats on the panel did not vote on the subpoena.
 
The subpoenas were approved right after the social media platforms decided to block stories from the New York Post that made claims about the son of then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
 
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