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Everyone who uses Facebook, Google, and Twitter has probably noticed the disappearance of posts and the appearance of labels, especially during the 2020 election season. In this episode, hear the highlights from six recent House and Senate hearings where executives from the social media giants and experts on social media testified about the recent changes. The incoming 117th Congress is promising to make new laws that will affect our social media experiences; these conversations are where the new laws are being conceived. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links to contribute monthly or a lump sum via to support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send payments to: Send payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send payments to: $CongressionalDish or Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Episodes The Mueller Report National Endowment for Democracy Articles/Documents Article: WTMJ-TV Milwaukee, November 24, 2020 Article: By Elliot Harmon, Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 16, 2020 Article: By Glenn Greenwald, November 12, 2020 Article: Facebook, November 3, 2020 Article: By Kaelyn Forde and Patricia Sabga, Aljazeera, October 30, 2020 Article: By Elliot Harmon and Joe Mullin, Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 29, 2020 Article: , by Matt Taibbi, TK News, October 24, 2020 Article: The Washington Post, October 20, 2020 Article: , by Kevin Johnson, USA Today, October 19, 2020 Article: By Natasha Lomas, Tech Crunch, October 16, 2020 Article: By Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, October 14, 2020 Article: By Sophia Bernazzani, HubSpot, May 3, 2020 Article: By Josh Constine, TechCrunch, March 28, 2019 Article: SFS, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, June 21, 2016 Article: By Brian Boland, Facebook for Business, June 5, 2014 Article: The Washington Post, October 4, 2013 Additional Resources General Guidelines and policies: , Twitter, October 2020 Facebook Business Facebook Business , IFCN Code of Principles , Electronic Frontier Foundation Mission Statement: Open Markets News Media Alliance News Corp Foreign Policy Research Institute Foreign Policy Research Institute Wicszipedia Sound Clip Sources Hearing: , Senate Judiciary Committee, November 17, 2020 Witnesses: Jack Dorsey, Twitter, Inc. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Inc. Transcript: 30:50 Jack Dorsey: We were called here today because of an enforcement decision we made against New York Post, based on a policy we created in 2018. To prevent Twitter from being used to spread hacked materials. This resulted in us blocking people from sharing a New York Post article, publicly or privately. We made a quick interpretation, using no other evidence that the materials in the article were obtained through hacking, and according to our policy, we blocked them from being spread. Upon further consideration, we admitted this action was wrong and corrected it within 24 hours. We informed the New York Post of our air and policy update and how to unlock their account by deleting the original violating tweet, which freed them to tweet the exact same content and news article again. They chose not to, instead insisting we reverse our enforcement action. We do not have a practice around retro actively overturning prior enforcement's, since then it demonstrated that we needed one and so we created one we believe is fair and appropriate. 35:13 Mark Zuckerberg: At Facebook, we took our responsibility to protect the integrity of this election very seriously. In 2016, we began to face new kinds of threats and after years of preparation, we were ready to defend against them. We built sophisticated systems to protect against election interference, that combined artificial intelligence, significant human review, and partnerships with the intelligence community, law enforcement and other tech platforms. We've taken down more than 100 networks of bad actors, we're trying to coordinate and interfere globally, we established a network of independent fact checkers that covers more than 60 languages. We made political advertising more transparent on Facebook than anywhere else, and including TV, radio and email. And we introduced new policies to combat voter suppression and misinformation. Still, the pandemic created new challenges, how to handle misinformation about COVID and voting by mail, how to prepare people for the reality, the results would take time, and how to handle if someone prematurely declared victory or refused to accept the result. So in September, we updated our policies again to reflect these realities of voting in 2020. And make sure that we were taking precautions given these unique circumstances. We worked with local election officials to remove false claims about polling conditions that might lead to voter suppression. We partnered with Reuters and the national election...