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Social Media Firms to Testify at U.S. Senate Homeland Security Hearing

posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 13 2022, @10:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the apologize-and-deny dept.
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Social media firms to testify at U.S. Senate Homeland Security hearing:

The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday with Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META.O), Alphabet's YouTube (GOOGL.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and short video app TikTok on social media's impact on homeland security.

The panel led by Democratic Senator Gary Peters will also hear from a panel of former executives including from Twitter and Facebook.

The committee said the hearing will be an opportunity "to understand the extent to which social media companies' business models, through algorithms, targeted advertising, and other operations and practices, contribute to the amplification of harmful content and other threats to homeland security."

[...] "In attack after attack, there are signs that social media platforms played a role in exposing people to increasingly extreme content, and even amplifying dangerous content to more users," Peters said at a 2021 hearing.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday September 13 2022, @01:15PM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 13 2022, @01:15PM (#1271463) Journal

    "In attack after attack, there are signs that social media platforms played a role in exposing people to increasingly extreme content, and even amplifying dangerous content to more users,"

    This is why friends don't let friends friend 'frends' on social media.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 13 2022, @01:25PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 13 2022, @01:25PM (#1271464) Homepage Journal

    There is going to be another run at establishing the Ministr of Truth. Seriously, think about that. Just WHO does anyone here want to see in charge of MinTru?

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    • (Score: 0, Troll) by hachihachido on Wednesday September 14 2022, @08:08AM

      by hachihachido (18319) on Wednesday September 14 2022, @08:08AM (#1271572)

      Poor Runaway cannot abide the authority of Truth. He much prefers "alternative" truth, like when he sent money to Steve Bannon to "Build the Whale"! Funny.

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