Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, is testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the moderation of online content. The hearing has taken a more political tone than a Senate hearing earlier in the day, but he has avoided taking sides.
• Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, and Mr. Dorsey testified at the Senate hearing about their companies’ response to foreign interference in elections and the moderation of online content.
• Larry Page, the chief executive of Google’s parent company Alphabet, was also invited to the Senate hearing but the company declined to send him. Several senators noted that no one from Google was there.
• The House hearing can be watched live on the Senate Intelligence Committee website, C-Span, and the House Energy and Commerce committee website.
The House hearing kicked off with a more political tone than the morning Senate hearing with social media executives.
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive officer, was asked by Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, the Republican chairman of the committee, how algorithms could be suppressing conservative views on the service.
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