Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are out there in this beautiful

world.

How about we step out onto the high wire?

Thank you for joining us today.

Book burning, witch trials, children's detention camps.

These are things that sound like stories from our past, the history.

You ever ask yourself, is history repeating itself?

That's what I thought when I saw this happening yesterday morning on our news.

Take a look.

I'd call this here into order and I'd like to welcome our witnesses today, Jack Dorsey,

Chief Executive Officer at Twitter, Jack Welcome and Cheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating

Officer at Facebook.

I thank both of you for being here with us this morning.

I'm deeply disappointed that Google, one of the most influential digital platforms in

the world, chose not to send its own top corporate leadership to engage this committee.

Because I know our members have a series of difficult questions about structural vulnerabilities

on a number of Google's platforms that we in need answers for.

From Google Search, which continues to have problems surfacing absurd conspiracies,

to YouTube where Russian back disinformation agents promoted hundreds of divisive videos,

to Gmail where state-sponsored operatives attempted countless hacking attempts,

Google has an immense responsibility in this space.

We believe many people use Twitter as a digital public square.

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