Facebook, Twitter Under Pressure As Executives Testify Before Congress

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook (FB), and Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter (TWTR), are testifying today in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is assessing how well social media companies are confronting foreign influence on their platforms. In her opening remarks, Sandberg reiterated that Facebook was too slow to react in 2016 when the platform was used for election interference by Russian accounts. Meanwhile, Dorsey has tweeted that he is not “proud” of the way its platform has been used to spread propaganda and the way “bad faith actors” were able to “game Twitter”. 

FACEBOOK ‘TOO SLOW’ TO REACT: In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged that the social media giant was too slow to respond to foreign efforts to interfere in the U.S. elections. “We were too slow to spot this and too slow to act. That is on us”, she said. “We’re getting better at finding and stopping our opponents”.