Facebook’s Mark Zuckerbeg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai have been called to testify on their companies’ legal immunity in managing content on their sites—in the midst of a national election
WASHINGTON--The Senate Commerce Committee voted to subpoena testimony from Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerbeg, Twitter Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, setting up what could be a contentious hearing with the largest U.S. social-media companies in the midst of a national election.
In taking the unusual step of forcing the executives to testify Thursday, Senators cited the need to review Section 230, a legal provision that grants the companies legal immunity in managing content...
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