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DATA BREACH: Facebook, Twitter, Google executives testify before US Senate
Senior executives of Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google will testify before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Sept. 5, Senator Mark Warner, the committee’s Democratic vice chairman, said on Wednesday.
“We will be hosting senior executives from Facebook, Twitter and, yes, Google at a hearing on September 5. To hear the plans they have in place, to press them to do more and to work together to address this challenge,” Warner said at a hearing looking into foreign efforts to influence U.S. elections through the use of social media.
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“All the evidence this committee has seen to date suggests that the platform companies – namely Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google and YouTube – still have a lot of work to do,” Warner said.
The committee has been looking into the issue for months, but concern heightened on Tuesday when Facebook said it had identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissension among voters ahead of November’s U.S. mid-term elections.
The hearing, which features testimony by experts on technology and cyber security, was scheduled long before Facebook’s announcement.
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