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Axios Re:Cap

Rep. Anna Eshoo on tomorrow's Big Tech hearing

Axios Re:Cap

Axios

Daily News, News

4.5705 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The House of Representatives is holding its first Big Tech hearing of 2021 on Thursday with witnesses to include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Dan is joined by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), who represents part of Silicon Valley, to discuss what she hopes to learn and why she's more interested in algorithms than moderators.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Dan Fromak and welcome to Axios Recap.

0:06.0

Today's Wednesday, March 24th.

0:08.0

A shipping container is stuck in the Suez Canal.

0:11.0

Operation Warp Speed's former science chief is out of a startup

0:15.0

because of sexual harassment allegations,

0:17.0

and we're focused on Congress's latest swing at big tech.

0:24.6

House Democrats tomorrow will hold their first big tech hearing of 2021, the witnesses to include

0:30.4

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

0:36.3

If that sounds a little like deja vu, that's because it is.

0:39.3

This will be the fourth time Zuckerberg has testified since last July, and the third time

0:44.3

for Pachai and Dorsey.

0:46.3

One big difference, though, is that while this is a House hearing, this will be the first

0:50.3

one in which the Senate and White House are both controlled by Democrats, which means

0:54.5

there might be more potential for post-hearing legislation to actually get passed.

0:59.6

The question then is, what sort of legislation that would be?

1:02.8

As you might imagine, a lot of the conversation is revolving around Section 230, the law

1:07.9

that exempts social media platforms from being held liable for content posted to their

1:11.8

platforms, even if those platforms to engage in content moderation in terms of removing content

1:16.7

or promoting content.

1:18.8

Altering or even abolishing Section 230 has been a pet cause for years of conservatives

1:23.4

who argue they're too often censored by big tech.

1:26.5

But movement on 230 now is also growing among

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