At the same Senate hearing, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said, « We intend to learn from all of our experience with this election and bring all of that learning going forward to make it more robust. »
Mark Zuckerberg told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that Facebook will moderate content related to the Georgia Senate runoff elections in a way similar to what it did for the November 3 elections. The Facebook CEO and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared at the hearing virtually to answer senators’ questions regarding how their companies handled election-related posts. While Democratic senators participating in the hearing repeatedly expressed concern about whether the steps each platform takes to avoid the spread of misinformation were enough, Republican senators questioned whether efforts to flag or limit the exposure of certain posts qualified as censorship. With both of Georgia’s Republican senators heading into runoff elections in January, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal told Zuckerberg and Dorsey that he was worried both of their platforms were « backsliding » and « failing to take action against dangerous misinformation. » The Democratic senator then asked if both CEOs would commit before the runoffs to the same kind of content management strategy—involving fact-checking, labeling questionable content and limiting the spread of misinformation—seen during the general election.
