“Disinformation Nation: Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation”
Witnesses
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Facebook
Mr. Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer, Google
Mr. Jack Dorsey
Chief Executive Officer, Twitter
Documents
- Hearing Notice
- Briefing Memo
- Document For The Record – Letter from Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
- Document For The Record – A Letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Document For The Record – A Letter from New America’s Open Technology Institute
- Document For The Record – A Letter from NY Small Farma, Ltd.
- Document For The Record – A Statement from Alphabet Workers Union
- Document For The Record – Letters from the National Black Justice Coalition
- Document for The Record – A Letter from Sikhs for Justice
- Document For The Record – A Letter from State AGs
- Document For The Record – A Letter from the Computer and Communications Industry Association
- Document For The Record – A Letter from AVAAZ
- Document For The Record – A Blog from Neil Fried of Digital Frontiers Advocacy
- Document For The Record – A Letter from the Music Community
- Document For The Record – A Letter from the Disinfo Defense League
- Document for the Record – A Letter from Consumer Reports
- Document For The Record – A report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate called the Disinformation Dozen
- Document For The Record – Letter from the Coalition for a Secure and Transparent Internet (CSTI)
- Document For The Record – Letter from CSTI – support attachment – FTC Response to Rep. Latta
- Document For The Record – Letter from CSTI – support attachment – ICE Response to Rep. Latta
- Document For The Record – Letter from CSTI – support attachment – Facebook
- Document For The Record – Letter from gun violence survivors (Faces of Tech Harm Congress)
- Document For The Record – Letter from the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)
- Opening Statement of Rep. Anna Eshoo
- Opening Statement of Rep. Frank Pallone – Chair of the Full Committee
- Opening Statement of Rep. Jan Schakowsky – Chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce
- Documents For The Record – Data from the Centers for Disease Control, The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the Mercado, Holland, Leemis, Stone, and Wang (2017) regarding teen mental health – Rep. Castor
- Document For The Record – Letter From Facebook to Rep. Eshoo
- Document For The Record – Letter from Twitter to Rep. Eshoo
- Document For The Record – Letter from YouTube to Rep. Eshoo
- Rep. Rice – Document For The Record – Report from House Veterans Affairs Committee
- Opening Statement of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers – Ranking Member of the Full Committees
- Opening Statement of Rep. Robert E. Latta – Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Opening Statement of Rep. Gus Bilirakis – Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce
- Attendance
- Minority – Document For The Record – A longitudinal analysis of YouTube’s promotion of conspiracy videos
- Minority – Document For The Record – A Letter from the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies
- Minority – Document For The Record – A CCIA Statement
- Minority – Document For The Record – A comment by Donovan et al from The Technology and Social Change Team
- Minority – Document For The Record – A Wall Street Journal Article titled, “Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make Site Less Divisive”
- Minority – Document For The Record – A Voice of America Article titled, “FBI: Surge in Internet Crime Cost Americans $4.2 Billion”
- Minority – Document For The Record – A Global Research Project report
- Minority – Document For The Record – An Opinion Article titled, “Google is Not Cracking Down on the Most Dangerous Drug in America”
- Minority – Document For The Record – An MIT Technology Review Article titled, “How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation”
- Minority – Document For The Record – An Article from The Independent
- Minority – Document For The Record – An Article from The New Yorker
- Minority – Document For the Record – A Letter from the Coalition of a Safer Web
- Minority – Document For The Record – A New York Times Article titled, “Tech Companies Detect a Surge in Online Videos of Child Sex Abuse”
- Minority – Document For The Record – An MIT Review Article titled, “Thank you for posting: Smoking’s Lessons For Regulating Social Media”
- Minority – Document For The Record – An Article from Imprimis
- Minority – Document For The Record – An Article from the Atlantic
- Minority – Document For The Record – A New York Times Article titled, “Square, Jack Dorsey’s Pay Service, Is Withholding Money Merchants Say They Need”
- Minority – Document For The Record – A response letter from Twitter to Rep. Rodgers
- Minority – Document For The Record – A response letter from Google to Rep. Rodgers
- Minority – Document For The Record – A Response Letter from Facebook to Rep. Rodgers
- Minority – Document For The Record – An Article from Engadget
- Rep. Cardenas – Document For The Record – A Letter Regarding Spanish Language Misinformation
- Rep. Castor – Documents For The Record – Data from the Centers for Disease Control, The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the Mercado, Holland, Leemis, Stone, and Wang (2017) regarding teen mental health