Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will affirm in Washington, DC, in September.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will affirm prior to the House Energy and Commerce Committee onSept 5, the committee verified Friday.
“CONFIRMED: Twitter CEO @jack Dorsey will testify September 5 before E&C on the company’s algorithms and content monitoring,” the committee tweeted.
CONFIRMED: Twitter CEO @jack Dorsey will affirm September 5 prior to E&C on the business’s algorithms and content tracking.
— Energy and Commerce (@HouseCommerce) August 24, 2018
“Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go viral,” stated House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, a Republican from Oregon, in a declaration. “When choices about information and material are used nontransparent procedures, the American individuals are ideal to raise issues.
“This committee plans to ask hard concerns about how Twitter displays and authorities material, and we eagerly anticipateMr Dorsey being sincere and transparent concerning the complex processes behind the business’s algorithms and content judgement calls,” he included.
Representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter will likewise appear prior to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence onSept 5 to affirm on election security. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are anticipated to appear on behalf of their particular business.
Twitter, Google and Facebook didn’t instantly react to ask for remark.
CNET’s Ian Sherr added to this report.
