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Tech Giants On Capitol Hill For More Russia Interference Questions

Facebook, Twitter and Google will face questions from the Senate and House Intelligence Committees on Wednesday. It's the second day of testimony for lawyers from the three online platforms.
Colin Stretch (left), general counsel of Facebook; Sean Edgett (center), acting general counsel of Twitter; and Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security of Google, are sworn in prior to testifying during a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Russian influence on social networks on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Update at 11:05 a.m. ET

Lawyers from Facebook, Twitter and Google will again be grilled by members of Congress on Wednesday, after

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