The
House Energy and Commerce Committee "intends to ask tough
questions about how Twitter monitors and polices content,"
Republican Representative Greg Walden, the panel's chairman,
said in a statement.
"We look forward to Mr. Dorsey being forthright and transparent
regarding the complex processes behind the company's algorithms
and content judgment calls," Walden said.
On Friday, President Donald Trump accused social media companies
of silencing "millions of people" in an act of censorship, but
without offering evidence to support the claim.
"Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people. Can’t do
this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like
CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure
out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!" Trump
wrote on Twitter, not mentioning any specific companies.
Trump also criticized social media outlets last week, saying
without providing proof that unidentified companies were
"totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices."
Those tweets followed actions taken by Apple Inc <AAPL.O>,
Facebook Inc <FB.O> and Alphabet Inc's <GOOGL.O> YouTube to
remove some content posted by Infowars, a website run by
conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Jones' Twitter account was temporarily suspended on Aug. 15.
(Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Tom Brown)
[© 2018 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2018 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thompson Reuters is solely responsible for this content.
|
|