Google, Facebook, Twitter to testify next week on violent, extremist online content

The hearing follows growing concern about the use of social media by people committing mass shootings and other violent acts. Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc will testify next week before a US Senate panel on efforts by social media firms to remove violent content from online platforms, the panel said in a statement. The 18 September hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee follows growing concern in Congress about the use of social media by people committing mass shootings and other violent acts. Facebook’s head of global policy management Monika Bickert, Twitter public policy director Nick Pickles and Google’s global director of information policy Derek Slater are due to testify.