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HAPPENING NOW: House @EnergyCommerce holding a hearing with tech CEOs including Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Follow along with us, right here!

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Chairman expects this hearing to go beyond 3 hours.

"That attack [the Insurrection] and the movement that motivated it started and was nourished on your platforms." - @USRepMikeDoyle

.@RepSchakowsky announces she’s introducing the Online Consumer Protection Act

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https://twitter.com/rashadrobinson/status/1375121309580062722?s=20

The many backgrounds of Zuckerberg over the course of the virtual hearings.

Zuckerberg talking about how Facebook has assisted investigators in the Insurrection investigation while his platform was used to organize, plan, and spread disinformation ahead of 1/6.

"People often say things that aren't verifiably true but speak to their lived experiences and I think we have to be careful restricting that." - Mark Zuckerberg

DOYLE: Do you bare some responsibility for what happened [on Jan 6]?

ZUCKERBERG: Our responsibility...

DOYLE: The gentlemen chooses not to answer the question.

.@USRepMikeDoyle: "Just 12 accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram account for 60% of the antivaxx content on your platform."

"How is it possible for you not to at least admit that Facebook played a leading role in the recruitment, planning and execution of the attack on the capitol?" - chairman Doyle

"I think the responsibility lies with the people who took the actions to break the law and do the insurrection" - Zuckerberg's response.

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https://twitter.com/donie/status/1375130714665013248

Zuckerberg says Facebook does not bear responsibility for the Jan 6 Insurrection ⬇️

Zuckerberg is lying to Congress right now

https://twitter.com/YaelEisenstat/status/1375134154799611909?s=20

"Given the association between this type of language [anti-Asian hate speech such as hashtag China virus] and racism and violence, wy do you still allow these hashtags on your platform?" - @DorisMatsui

@DorisMatsui "We need to be clear about when someone is saying something in a hateful way versus when they're denouncing it and this is one of the things that has made it* different to operationalise this at scale." - Zuckerberg's response.
*removing hate speech

@DorisMatsui Zuckerberg says they will respect the decision of the @OversightBoard on whether or not to permanently ban former President Trump.

@DorisMatsui @OversightBoard Zuckerberg calls on Congress to pass a national privacy law that aligns with similar laws around the globe.

@DorisMatsui @OversightBoard ⬇️

https://twitter.com/rashadrobinson/status/1375157183709609992?s=20

.@RepCardenas is following up with Zuckerberg about Spanish-language disinformation following our emergency meeting with the Congressman last week.

"This [fact checking in different languages] is certainly something that we invest a lot in and it will be someting that we continue to invest more in" - Zuckerberg

15 min break...😅

.@RepDebDingell calling for federal legislation that makes Facebook's algorithms available to researchers, Congress, and regulators.

@RepDebDingell "An area that is extremely important and needs multiple tactics to address" - Zuckerberg on climate change disinformation on facebook.

@RepDebDingell “People use our services to share and send messages billions of times a day. It would be impossible for us to scan or understand everything going on and i don’t think our society would want us to take the steps that would be necessary to monitor every single thing.” - Zuckerberg

ZuckerMAN?

"Given your answers I'm not convinced that you have the appropriate resources devoted to the problem of mitigating the real world effects of content that is designed to mislead and radicalise your users" - @KathleenRice

Zuckerberg says he’s not aware that Facebook initially took down @RepMarieNewman’s post of her putting up a transgender flag in support of her daughter.

@RepMarieNewman Zuckerberg tells @AngieCraigMN that if she's asking if facebook is ever going to be perfect the answer is always going to be no.

“Your industry cannot be trusted to regulate itself” -
@AngieCraigMN

Zuckerberg commits to sharing posts that were taken down by Facebook from the 1/6 Insurrection with Congress.

.@RepPaulTonko: "Facebook was the most cited social media site in charging documents the DOJ filed against insurrectionists, do you still deny that your platform was used as a significant megaphone for the lies that fueled the insurrection?"

Zuck: Umm...we work w law enforcement

@RepPaulTonko Zuckerman or possibly berg says that platforms should be held responsible for building "generally effective systems"...#irony

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