Posted on 10/27/2017 3:20:41 PM PDT by maggief
Representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter are all slated to testify before a Senate Judiciary panel on Tuesday, the day before company officials are set to appear in a pair of highly-anticipated intelligence hearings.
Tuesday’s hearing is before Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) subcommittee on crime and terrorism and will focus on how to combat extremist and Russian propaganda online, his office announced on Friday.
Facebook and Twitter will be represented by their general counsels, while Google will send its director of law enforcement and information security.
On Wednesday, the general counsels for all three companies are scheduled to testify in back-to-back hearings before the Senate and House Intelligence committees.
They will brief lawmakers on Russian efforts to use their platforms to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT revealed in FULL
RT ^ | October 27, 2017
After RT published excerpts from Twitter’s “limited offer” to spend millions on US election marketing, the company abruptly banned all advertising from the news network. This makes full disclosure and transparency imperative, so here goes.
On Thursday, the micro-blogging platform announced a policy decision to ban ads from RT and Sputnik, citing alleged meddling in the 2016 US election.
It followed Twitter’s report implying that RT was trying to influence US public opinion, crucially without providing context that virtually all news media organizations spend money on advertising their news coverage.
RT was thereby forced to reveal some details of the 2016 negotiations during which Twitter representatives made an exclusive multi-million dollar advertising proposal to spend big during the US presidential election, which was turned down.
Having since been banned, and in order to set the record straight, we are publishing Twitter’s presentation and details of the offer in full.
I’ve never seen an ad on FB or Twitter. Do you have to be dumb enough to pay to see them?
Waste of time.
May as well give testimony to a garbage can.
There is a small, but non zero chance that the can will have a smidgeon of intelligence.
As is usual, nothing will happen.
Because nothing can happen.
What a waste of time and money. Plus it is extremely frustrating to me knowing the fix is in. FB, the twitter and google are all evil.
All working for Hillary!
And Soros!
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