Senate committee approves subpoenas for Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Testifies To House Hearing On Company’s Transparency and Accountability

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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved subpoenas on Thursday to force Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify before the body regarding complaints of anti-conservative bias on their platforms.

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Facebook signaled that the article was subject to third-party fact-checking, and Twitter banned linking to…

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