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[unable to retrieve full-text content]White House rejects long-shot House Republican effort to get President Joe Biden to testify  Yahoo! Voices Source link

Tesla (TSLA) board members testified on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s 2018 Twitter posts about taking the electric-vehicle company private were consistent with what he related to the board about a potential take-private deal. Outside director James Murdoch, son of film and television titan Rupert Murdoch, took the stand among other former or current board members. The testimony is part of the class-action trial brought by company shareholders who contend they traded Tesla shares to their… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) board members testified on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s 2018 Twitter posts about taking the electric-vehicle company private were consistent with what he related to the board about a potential take-private deal. Outside director James Murdoch, son of film and television titan Rupert Murdoch, took the stand among other former or current board members. The testimony is part of the class-action trial brought by company shareholders who contend they traded Tesla shares to their… Source link

Former Twitter (TWTR) security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to testify about what he says are widespread security failures at the social media company. The hearing, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. E.T., will focus on the allegations Zatko made in a whistleblower complaint filed in July with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice, and Federal Trade Commission, which alleges that Twitter’s overall… Source link

After several calm days of her legal team calling character witnesses on her behalf and arguing for a lenient sentence, Brittney Griner’s next appearance in Russian court is likely to be a bit more intense. The judge is expected to directly interrogate her on Wednesday, her attorney Maria Blagovolina told Yahoo Sports. Griner faces up to 10 years in Russian prison after she flew into a Moscow airport in February and Russian customs officials allegedly found vape cartridges containing… Source link

A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ Senior executives with Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Apple (AAPL.O) will testify on Wednesday about antitrust concerns related to their app stores along with executives of three companies which rely on those online stores, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel said on Monday. The hearing will include Google Government Affairs Senior… 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

Topline Tech CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey will soon have to answer to lawmakers about the rise of misinformation on their platforms and how they plan to address it, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Thursday a hearing with the Facebook, Google and Twitter leaders will take place on March 25. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a House hearing on July 29, 2020. (Photo by Mandel … [+] Ngan-Pool/Getty Images) … Source link

Combination of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google. Reuters The CEOs of several big tech companies will again testify before Congress next month, this time to discuss misinformation on their platforms. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear before members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 25. In a statement announcing the new hearing, House E&C Committee leaders… Source link

Sen. Maria Cantwell discusses net neutrality at a 2017 town hall in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) The technology industry is pushing local journalism over the edge, according to a new report from the office of Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington state. The report released Tuesday predicts that by the end of 2020, newspaper revenue will be down 70% compared to 20 years ago and broadcast revenues will dip more than 40%. The losses have created… Source link