Holocaust denial, coronavirus misinformation at issue as Big Tech chiefs testify

WASHINGTON — to combat misinformation and prevent bias from taking root in their content-moderation efforts.

“We don’t have a policy against that type of misleading information,” Dorsey said, explaining that Holocaust denial is not one of the three types of misinformation that Twitter will remove. Those categories currently have to do with misinformation regarding elections and public health, as well as manipulated media such as “deep fakes.”

As far as Democrats are concerned, social media platforms do too little, not too much, to keep Trump from spreading misinformation, about the coronavirus in particular. At one point, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., read a tweet from the president that incorrectly described children as “almost immune” from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, as well as another about mail-in ballots.

The committee’s chairman, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said, “The time has come for that free pass to end.” Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said much the same thing earlier this month. “Social media companies have a First Amendment right to free speech,” Pai wrote in a memorandum. “But they do not have a First Amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters.

Facebook recently announced they would remove Holocaust denial content, but takes opposite approach when it comes to ArmenianGenocide, censoring prominent voices including World Chess Champ Kasparov63. Where is the consistency? alexnazaryan tedcruz

Jack looks crazy.

tedcruz was the worse liar in this Senate hearings that was just to shame for his own pleasure

I watched the entire hearing. Jack has no idea what goes on at Twitter. He was wrong about so many things and wasn't able to answer questions that the Republicans would definitely be asking.

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