Facebook, Twitter, Google under pressure to testify in Congress over data use
WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives came under pressure from both sides of the political aisle Monday to testify in the Senate on how a political consulting firm gained access to the data of millions of Facebook users during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., wrote to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanding that top executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google be brought in for questioning about their efforts to police their own platforms for abuse and interference in U.S. elections.