The chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee wants to force Big Tech CEOs to testify for an upcoming hearing.
That is according to an announcement of an executive session markup Oct. 1 dealing with that issue.
While the agenda for the meeting is subject to change, according to the committee, currently it contains a single item: "Authorization to subpoena the attendance of witnesses for the purpose of a hearing."
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The witnesses Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) wants to subpoena are Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
It is the latest in a flood of social media-related moves in Washington as the Congress considers Big Tech's role in online extremism, political censorship, data handling and much more.
Back in July, Pichai and Zuckerberg joined Apple's Tim Cook and Amazon's Jeff Bezos for a virtual House hearing with the Big Tech giants.
They may be a little wary, and weary, after that buzz saw of a hearing, in which legislators were in agreement that the companies had too much power and that something needed to be done to at least shake up, or even break up, that new tech order.
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