Tag Archives: CEOs

Peloton founder and CEO John Foley is on the defensive as he tries to stem the fallout from a shocking new video released over the weekend by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) showing a young child getting sucked under a Peloton treadmill while playing with a ball. Foley —a father of two young children with wife Jill (who is also Peloton’s VP of apparel) — blasted the CPSC in a message to Peloton members on Sunday afternoon, saying the company was not trying to impede an… Source link

Things got personal Thursday during a virtual Congressional hearing to elicit testimony about misinformation online from three of the world’s most powerful CEOs, with lawmakers demanding to know what concerns Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, had about social media’s impact on their own children. The issue of protecting children’s welfare, and particularly mental health, emerged as a major theme at the hearing before the House Energy & Commerce… Source link

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about their platforms’ efforts to stem baseless election fraud claims and vaccine skepticism. Opaque algorithms that prioritize user engagement and promote misinformation also came under scrutiny. Rep. Mike Doyle, chair of the House subcommittee on Communications and Technology, said his staff easily found anti-vaccine content on Facebook, Facebook’s… Source link

The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter were in the hot seat once again, as lawmakers grilled them Thursday over their companies’ alleged role in the proliferation of disinformation and misinformation online. The Silicon Valley chief executives have already faced questioning on Capitol Hill multiple times over the past few years. The deadly riot on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol — and the apparent role social media played leading up to the event — loomed large over the virtual… Source link

[The stream is slated to start at Noon ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google return to Congress on Thursday to address the spread of misinformation on their platforms. In virtual appearances, the three executives plan to tell members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about steps they’ve taken to combat the spread of false information on their services, particularly during the 2020 election and Covid-19… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The leaders of the three most popular social media platforms are at odds over the thorniest public policy question they face: who’s responsible for policing the content that appears on their pages. At issue is a decades old law that protects social media companies from liability over content posted by users. The heads of Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Twitter Inc. are all slated to appear before a House panel Thursday to testify about the spread of false… Source link

By Diane Bartz, Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out steps to reform a key internet law on Wednesday, saying that companies should have immunity from liability only if they follow best practices for removing damaging material from their platforms. In testimony prepared for a joint hearing before two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees on Thursday, Zuckerberg acknowledged the calls from lawmakers for changes to a law called Section 230 of the… Source link

By Diane Bartz, Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out steps to reform a key internet law on Wednesday, saying that companies should have immunity from liability only if they follow best practices for removing damaging material from their platforms. In testimony prepared for a joint hearing before two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees on Thursday, Zuckerberg acknowledged the calls from lawmakers for changes to a law called Section 230 of the… Source link

Combination of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google. Reuters The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google will face Congress on Thursday to discuss misinformation and defend the liability shield that helped establish their platforms. In written testimony that will be delivered to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey discussed how their platforms reflect the society at-large. “Our… Source link

More than 150 chief executives signed a letter on Wednesday urging for more government stimulus and supporting President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan.” Among the executives who signed the letter included Google (GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai, Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO David Solomon, Zillow (Z) CEO Rich Barton, BlackRock (BLK) CEO Laurence Fink, and Visa (V) CEO Alfred Kelly, Jr. “Previous federal relief measures have been essential, but more must be done to put the country on a… Source link