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Days Before Election, Tech CEOs Defend Themselves From GOP Claims Of Censorship

The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google face skepticism from a Senate committee over their decisions about what content to allow and what to take down from their platforms.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies over video during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday about reforming Section 230, a key legal shield for tech companies.

The CEOs of some of the biggest tech platforms defended the way they handle online speech to an audience of skeptical senators, many of whom seemed more interested in scoring political points than engaging with thorny debate over content moderation policies and algorithms.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Google's Sundar Pichai appeared virtually Wednesday at a of the Senate Commerce Committee that was supposed to focus on a decades-old insulating tech companies from liability over

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