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"content": "\u003cp>Facebook will focus $150 million to build 2,000 units of extremely low-income housing as part of the social media company’s pledge in October 2019 to spend \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/facebook-commits-1-billion-to-address-housing-affordability/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion\u003c/a> on affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Facebook says this new Community Housing Fund would be the largest of its kind in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, Apple and Google have each invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year alone to finance the restoration and construction of affordable housing in the Bay Area, after pledging last year to spend billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google was first to pledge $1 billion in June of 2019, and while Apple was the last of the three with an announcement in November of that year, it upped the ante significantly by pledging $2.5 billion. All three tech titans employ tens of thousands of employees, and tens of thousands more through subcontractors. The latter especially struggle to afford to live anywhere in the region, let alone in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a time when phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-world-in-2018-from-the-economist-highlights-key-global-themes-to-watch-for-next-year-300558659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech lash\u003c/a>” was gaining currency in publications across the globe, the companies were also sensitive to growing criticism at home that the booming tech sector was responsible in large part for the housing crisis here. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pledging Big Money Just the Beginning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Step one for all the tech titans has been to sit down with stakeholders in the Bay Area affordable housing world, including other financiers, local governments, community activists and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destination: Home\u003c/a>, a public-private partnership fighting homelessness in Santa Clara County, which is contributing an additional $5 million to Facebook’s \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2020/12/facebook-invests-150-million-in-affordable-housing-for-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Housing Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that have the expertise are the folks that have boots on the ground, right? Where is it where we can play a role? It takes partnerships,” said Juan Salazar, director of local policy and community engagement at Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png\" alt=\"The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.\" width=\"692\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15.png 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-160x39.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/2e456227-41a1-4352-848e-9464128aec15-687x167.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shortage of extremely low-income housing is higher than for any other income group in the San Jose metro area, with just 34 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Destination: Home)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Destination: Home CEO Jennifer Loving says that, for her, the most exciting part of Facebook’s latest housing announcement is the fact it’s focused on extremely low-income individuals and families making less than 30% of a region’s median income. For example, in the Bay Area, a family of four making under $45,000 a year or less would meet that threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"housing\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s families who are minimum wage employed. It’s seniors on fixed income, individuals on disability. They might be paying 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of their income just on rent every single month, which puts them in a ridiculously precarious position of becoming homeless, and we’re seeing that now more than ever with the effects of COVID,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that any entity trying to build affordable housing faces an uphill battle given the housing market in the Bay Area. Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. That is the kind of leadership that frankly we need a lot more of,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s Community Housing Fund will be managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the largest community development organization in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size of the investment says that this is real. For these affordable housing developers that we work with, the more that one source of money can do more for their project, the faster they can get to construction,” said Cindy Wu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the funding will be dedicated to Santa Clara County through Destination: Home, but projects from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties are also eligible to apply. The $150 million is expected to fund at least six projects by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Facebook joined its corporate colleagues in making a billion-dollar pledge, the company began to demonstrate a commitment to building local affordable housing with its \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/08/a-step-to-catalyze-affordable-housing-in-the-community/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalyst Housing Fund\u003c/a>, launched in 2016. Facebook has also invested in local companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://factoryos.com/press/factory_os-joins-forces-with-technology-and-finance-leaders-to-solve-the-housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Factory_OS\u003c/a>, which builds modular housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg\" alt=\"Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley.\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg 1960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Apple)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Apple, Google and Cisco Spending, Too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, Apple has allocated more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-allocates-more-than-400-million-to-combat-california-housing-crisis/\">$500 million\u003c/a> toward building affordable housing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784720/apple-pledges-2-5-billion-to-fight-housing-crisis-in-california\">$2.5 billion\u003c/a> it pledged to fight the housing crisis in 2019. Its portfolio of investments also includes homelessness prevention efforts and a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency to provide down payment and mortgage assistance for hundreds of first-time home buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As communities face unprecedented challenges this year and many housing projects have been put on hold, we are proud to have been able to accelerate our work to bring more affordable housing options for people in need across California,” wrote Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president for Global Real Estate and Facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has spent $115 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion commitment\u003c/a> it made last year, including $100 million in low-cost funding for housing developers and an investment in the aforementioned Factory_OS, to help it build a second factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Housing] is going to take things like policy reform and zoning regulations to change in order for us to really change this at scale,” said Jacquelline Fuller, who leads Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “But in the meantime, we can … help contribute to affordable housing financing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community housing activists say it’s hard to find fault with the prospect of tens of thousands of affordable housing units coming online over the next 15 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there is a complaint, it’s that the tech companies are looking to get a return in the form of rents and tax credits. Geoff Morgan, president and CEO of the nonprofit affordable housing developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstcommunityhousing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Community Housing\u003c/a>, would like to see the tech giants offer more outright grants than low-cost loans to affordable-housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to bite the hand that feeds me. There’s some high-tech companies that, what they are doing is the reason why we’re able to move forward on a lot of our projects. I just think [grants] would mean we could get deeper levels of affordability for the people that need it most — and we could build more housing units,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Leslye Corsiglia, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://siliconvalleyathome.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silicon Valley at Home\u003c/a>']‘Our communities are not places we want to live and where employees want to to locate if we don’t have housing for everybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, Morgan praises another tech giant, San Jose-based networking hardware maker Cisco Systems, both because the company was one of the first to commit substantial resources to help solve the housing crisis, and because it’s done so with direct donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked with Cisco Systems to create \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10761651/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Second Street Studios\u003c/a>. 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Despite the exodus of locals fleeing high rents in recent years, the Bay Area is undersupplied by 699,000 housing units and needs to build 2.2 million more by 2070, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/what_it_will_really_take_to_create_an_affordable_bay_area.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> published in March by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). And experts don’t anticipate the current exodus of locals fleeing COVID-19 will budge those numbers much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market will never create solutions for individuals and families with extremely low income. So the willingness [of tech firms] to use their positional power to say that this housing has to be for the most vulnerable people, that are disproportionately families of color that are really struggling in the Bay. That is the kind of leadership that frankly we need a lot more of,” Loving said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook’s Community Housing Fund will be managed by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the largest community development organization in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The size of the investment says that this is real. For these affordable housing developers that we work with, the more that one source of money can do more for their project, the faster they can get to construction,” said Cindy Wu, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lisc.org/bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LISC Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of the funding will be dedicated to Santa Clara County through Destination: Home, but projects from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties are also eligible to apply. The $150 million is expected to fund at least six projects by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before Facebook joined its corporate colleagues in making a billion-dollar pledge, the company began to demonstrate a commitment to building local affordable housing with its \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2017/08/a-step-to-catalyze-affordable-housing-in-the-community/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalyst Housing Fund\u003c/a>, launched in 2016. Facebook has also invested in local companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://factoryos.com/press/factory_os-joins-forces-with-technology-and-finance-leaders-to-solve-the-housing-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Factory_OS\u003c/a>, which builds modular housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11850296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11850296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg\" alt=\"Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley.\" width=\"1960\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x.jpg 1960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/apple_housing-initiative-update_page-street-housing_07132020_big.jpg.large_2x-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1960px) 100vw, 1960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple is allocating more than $400 million toward affordable housing projects and homeowner assistance programs in California this year, including this Charities Housing Development Corporation project in San Jose, financed in partnership with Housing Trust Silicon Valley. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Apple)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Apple, Google and Cisco Spending, Too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So far, Apple has allocated more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/07/apple-allocates-more-than-400-million-to-combat-california-housing-crisis/\">$500 million\u003c/a> toward building affordable housing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11784720/apple-pledges-2-5-billion-to-fight-housing-crisis-in-california\">$2.5 billion\u003c/a> it pledged to fight the housing crisis in 2019. Its portfolio of investments also includes homelessness prevention efforts and a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency to provide down payment and mortgage assistance for hundreds of first-time home buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As communities face unprecedented challenges this year and many housing projects have been put on hold, we are proud to have been able to accelerate our work to bring more affordable housing options for people in need across California,” wrote Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president for Global Real Estate and Facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has spent $115 million of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755545/google-pledges-1-billion-to-help-fight-bay-area-housing-crisis-it-helped-create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 billion commitment\u003c/a> it made last year, including $100 million in low-cost funding for housing developers and an investment in the aforementioned Factory_OS, to help it build a second factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Housing] is going to take things like policy reform and zoning regulations to change in order for us to really change this at scale,” said Jacquelline Fuller, who leads Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “But in the meantime, we can … help contribute to affordable housing financing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community housing activists say it’s hard to find fault with the prospect of tens of thousands of affordable housing units coming online over the next 15 years or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there is a complaint, it’s that the tech companies are looking to get a return in the form of rents and tax credits. Geoff Morgan, president and CEO of the nonprofit affordable housing developer \u003ca href=\"https://www.firstcommunityhousing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Community Housing\u003c/a>, would like to see the tech giants offer more outright grants than low-cost loans to affordable-housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to bite the hand that feeds me. There’s some high-tech companies that, what they are doing is the reason why we’re able to move forward on a lot of our projects. I just think [grants] would mean we could get deeper levels of affordability for the people that need it most — and we could build more housing units,” Morgan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It started with President Trump and his supporters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846005/how-the-anti-defamation-league-is-fighting-election-misinformation-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posting misinformation\u003c/a> disputing the legitimacy of the election. Among other things, Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/4/21548736/twitter-facebook-throttle-trump-tweet-election-theft\">applied warning labels\u003c/a> to the president’s tweets and permanently suspended an account belonging to former White House chief strategist \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/tech/steve-bannon-twitter-permanent-suspension/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Bannon\u003c/a>. Facebook decided to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/05/facebook-trump-protests/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remove\u003c/a> the #StoptheSteal campaign altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, what was a trickle of high-profile conservatives creating accounts on relatively unknown platforms like Parler, Gab and MeWe has become a flood. In recent weeks, Parler, a Twitter-like app that touts its commitment to free speech (a stance often viewed as code for welcoming far-right viewpoints), claims its membership doubled from 4 million to 8 million users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gab, a platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-gab-white-nationalists-20181028-story.html\">favored by white nationalists for years\u003c/a>, reportedly grew to 3.7 million users. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gab is a sleeping new media giant that is only now beginning to awaken,” wrote CEO Andrew Torba in a company \u003ca href=\"https://news.gab.com/2020/11/10/gab-com-the-home-of-free-speech-online-sees-record-growth-after-big-tech-election-interference/\">blog post\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MeWe, owned by a Culver City company, “currently has about 11 million users and is growing rapidly,” at the rate of 300,000 new accounts a day, according to spokesman David Westreich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which is, yeah, an enormous increase,” said Alex Goldenberg, lead intelligence analyst with the \u003ca href=\"https://ncri.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Network Contagion Research Institute\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks hate speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last time Gab made national headlines\u003c/a>, one of its users opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, killing 11 people. Violent incidents like that one have prompted major platforms like Facebook and YouTube to come under increasing public pressure to crack down on misinformation, disinformation and hate speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are private platforms, and they can exercise their terms of services how they’d like. While you have freedom of speech, you don’t always have freedom of amplification,” Goldenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11847664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11847664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-16-at-12.00.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-16-at-12.00.30-PM.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-16-at-12.00.30-PM-800x331.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-16-at-12.00.30-PM-1020x422.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-16-at-12.00.30-PM-160x66.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“This claim about election fraud is disputed,” reads a label Twitter applied to a tweet from President Trump on Monday. \u003ccite>(Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But attempts by major social media platforms to dampen right-wing propaganda have led to cries of censorship from Republican politicians and pundits who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/06/17/who-shares-most-fake-news-new-study-sheds-light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more likely to post and share\u003c/a> information that gets flagged, labeled, algorithmically muted or deleted than are Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hearing after hearing on Capitol Hill, conservatives have called for changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects Silicon Valley platforms from lawsuits over content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had for several years, a growing problem with big tech censorship,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a few weeks ago told \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/thum10e7B2Q\">Fox’s Maria Bartiromo\u003c/a>, who has hundred of thousands of followers herself on Parler. “A handful of Silicon Valley billionaire are now telling media companies they get to decide what stories you can write and what stories the American people can read,” Cruz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"election coverage\"]This week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are expected to testify at a congressional hearing called by Republican lawmakers upset that the platforms limited the reach of an unsubstantiated New York Post article critical of Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like where we’re heading is two competing social media ecosystems if leaders from across the political spectrum and across civil society don’t restore public trust,” Goldenberg said. “Because if there’s no public trust in our institutions, people are going to look elsewhere for answers, and where they find those answers could be very dark places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if labeling certain posts as being disputed or potentially containing misinformation is pushing users toward these third-party sites, should Facebook, Twitter and YouTube stop doing it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still think that they need to do what they’re doing,” said professor Jenn Daskal, who directs the Tech, Law and Security Program at American University Washington College of Law. “Adding labels to speech that is clearly blatant misinformation is good, adding friction to the platforms to reduce virality of conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation is helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “It ought to be where all political persuasions can communicate and interact as long as they are doing so in ways that are not purposefully disseminating blatantly false information. As long as they are not engaging in ways that are inciting violence. And that seems to me to be the right set of rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cable TV’s fractured universe of news and talk filtered through partisan lenses suggests the future of social media, as Daskal sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The risk is that people end up on closed sites where everyone agrees with them. But the benefit is that it’s harder to reach a broader audience as a result,” Daskal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may not be a problem for extremists banned from the major platforms, like talk-show host Alex Jones or the neo-fascist Proud Boys, both of which have established large followings on Parler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s worth noting Facebook and Twitter rarely go so far as to delete the accounts of prominent conservatives like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, R-Kentucky — and most of them have not deleted their accounts on the big platforms. Bartiromo, for example, has publicly decried Twitter in recent weeks, but she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1327297733225484288?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continues to tweet\u003c/a> even as she commonly includes the copy, “On Parler @Mariabartiromotv.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not hard to imagine why Bartiromo stays. Twitter has more than 300 million active users, a number that dwarfs those seen on any “free speech” alternative platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s Facebook, which claims more than \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/company-info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3 billion users\u003c/a> across its three core platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp. #MassExitOffFacebook? Not likely.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When that political talk veers into hate, harassment and misinformation, ADL representatives say they reach out to the Amazon-owned company’s trust and safety team to make sure they’re aware of what’s happening and taking steps to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"election coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do you go when you want to understand where the threats of extremism are coming from? There’s 50 to 100 answers, but they’re all online platforms,” Segal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are the bigger platforms we’re all familiar with enforcing the election season policies they’ve put into place? To varying degrees of effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Sifry, vice president of the ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, said that some YouTube channels — including ones with more than 1 million subscribers — live-streamed fake election results to tens of thousands of people on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of those channels were even able to make money from ads,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sifry took issue with another YouTube election season policy regarding the labeling of potential misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when they take the ads off, [the label] says things like ‘Results may not be final. See the latest on Google,’ ” he said, steering viewers to the search engine owned by YouTube’s parent company. 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The language is similar to what other companies are using,” wrote YouTube’s Ivy Choi. “The vast majority of elections-related queries are surfacing authoritative sources and the majority of time, borderline content and harmful misinformation are not widely recommended by our systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what happens when a company fails to address flagged misinformation? Or fails to address it comprehensively?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the polls opened on Tuesday, Twitter has seen a flurry conspiracy-charged hashtags related to mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, while we definitely saw Twitter taking action, labeling misleading or false information relating to the election on various prominent accounts, we found 152 tweets for which no action had been taken,” Sifry said. “I’m not talking about small accounts that have few followers. 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But the 85 tweets to which Twitter did not respond received an additional 350,000 engagements,” Sifry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy responded, “Our teams are reviewing all the Tweets referenced … and will take enforcement action if they find violative content, in line with the Twitter Rules and our Civic Integrity Policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for misinformation spreading via search engines, ADL Senior Vice President of Policy Eileen Hershenov said the organization is tracking keywords related to things like violent militia groups and known conspiracy theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The top 10 states where we’re seeing this: Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Wisconsin, Arkansas, California, Oregon and West Virginia,” Hershenov said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hershenov added that individuals who spot troubling conversations can either go directly to law enforcement agencies and social media platforms like the ADL does, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/reportincident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">direct their concerns to the ADL\u003c/a> as a middle man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of people blowing off steam, right?” Sifry said. “That’s totally OK. 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The Apple representative suggested that the mother download Apple’s Screen Time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said “there are many reasons why” an app may not meet the App Store’s guidelines, dismissing the suggestion that Apple squashed its competition to favor its own service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/tech-titans-to-dial-in-to-congressional-antitrust/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Tech Titans to Dial in to Congressional Antitrust Hearing\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBath referenced a second example involving the publisher Random House, which says Apple held back the introduction of its app as Apple pushed its own similar product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even some of the largest companies in the country fear your power. Our evidence suggests that your company has used its power to harm your rivals and boost your own business,” McBath said. “This is fundamentally unfair,” she said. “Ultimately, it reduces the competition and the choices made to consumers and that’s a great concern to all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— Bobby Allyn \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CEO vows Google won’t play favorites in 2020 election\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced a barrage of questions from Rep. Jim Jordan. The Ohio Republican said he’s concerned that Google will tailor its search engine to give a leg up to presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden over President Trump in searches related to the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Jordan asked Pichai for a promise to Americans that Google will not favor Biden in the 2020 election, Pichai said “we don’t do any work to politically tilt anything one way or another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan persisted with the same question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pichai, eventually, agreed to make a commitment that Google will not tilt its features to help Biden and that the search engine will not be used to silence conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more big tech coverage\" tag=\"tech-companies\"]“Yeah, you have my commitment. It’s always been true and we’ll continue to conduct ourselves in a neutral way,” Pichai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a line of inquiry that is far afield from the purpose of the hearing, noted Pennsylvania Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon, saying she’d like to turn the focus back to antitrust, rather than “fringe conspiracy theories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This incited Jordan, who interrupted Scanlon, launching a screaming match between Jordan and Democratic leadership about following the rules of the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone comes after my motives for asking questions,” shouted Jordan, “I should get a chance to respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>— Bobby Allyn \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does Amazon use sellers’ data to help itself?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first inquiry for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos finally arrived from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., some two hours into the hearing. Jayapal zeroed in on the subcommittee’s central concern about Amazon: Does the company use the data it collects from other sellers on the platform for its benefit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t answer that questions yes or no,” Bezos said. “We have a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private label business, but I can’t guarantee you that that policy has never been violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee lawmakers have previously accused Amazon of “\u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2931\">lack of candor\u003c/a>” about how it \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015\">might be using\u003c/a> other sellers’ data to give an edge its own business, something Amazon executives have, until now, denied was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015\">made the case\u003c/a> that Amazon employees may have used such data to create the retailer’s own private-label products, which Bezos told lawmakers the company was still investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayapal noted that Amazon has access to information about consumer habits, sellers’ pricing and inventory data, a trove of details that could be ripe for abuse if used to make business decisions about Amazon’s own products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can set the rules of the game for your competitors, but not actually follow those same rules for yourself,” Jayapal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have access to data that your competitors do not have,” she continued, adding that if Amazon was “continuously monitoring” such data to make sure that other sellers “are never going to get big enough that they can compete with you — that is actually the concern that the committee has,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Alina Selyukh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Google’s Pichai is pressed on being “the gateway to the Internet”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subcommittee Chairman Cicilline spent all of his first 5-minute block of questions on Google — the company at most immediate risk of actual antitrust action. The Department of Justice is reportedly preparing to sue the company over its advertising business, and could be joined by state attorneys general who have also been investigating Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline pressed CEO Sundar Pichai on whether Google’s business model presents a conflict of interest, because it has an incentive to give search results that keep users on its own site rather than anywhere else on the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Google became the gateway to the Internet, it began to abuse its power,” Cicilline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pichai responded that Google “always focuses on providing users the most relevant information.” Cicilline appeared annoyed at Pichai’s answers, cutting him off several times to move to another question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still waiting for questions for Jeff Bezos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over an hour-and-a-half into the hearing, Jeff Bezos — appearing in Congress for the first time, whose company employs a million workers and has over 150 million paying subscribers — has yet to receive a single question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His presence was slated to become a powerful accomplishment of the House Judiciary Committee, but the questioning so far has left him muted on the live video feed, reaching for some snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing, meanwhile, is taking a 10-minute break to fix a technical problem “with one of our witnesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Alina Selyukh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did Facebook buy Instagram to neutralize a competitor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., pressed Facebook’s Zuckerberg on exactly why his company bought Instagram for $1 billion back in 2012. That’s a key part of competition questions facing the social media giant. Critics accuse Facebook of buying or copying rivals — like Instagram and WhatsApp — to squash competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler said in its investigation, the committee got documents from Facebook in which Zuckerberg discussed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1288540745637474306?s=20\">“neutralizing a competitor”\u003c/a> as a reason to pursue Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook saw Instagram as a threat that could potentially siphon business away from Facebook. And so rather than compete with it, Facebook bought it,” Nadler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg points out that the Federal Trade Commission okayed the merger at the time. “With hindsight it probably looks obvious that Instagram would have reached the scale that it has today, but at the time it was far from obvious,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline interjected to say that the “failures” of the FTC in 2012 do not mean it was not a violation of antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Panel chairman: Under coronavirus, big tech “likely to emerge stronger and more powerful” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up first is Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, chairman of the antitrust subcommittee that’s holding this hearing. He is the driving force behind the year-long investigation of big tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3200\">opening remarks\u003c/a>, he describes the dominance of each company: Amazon in online shopping, Apple in smartphones and apps, Facebook in social media and Google in search and ads. And he points out that thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, all four “are likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As American families shift more of their work, shopping, and communication online, these giants stand to profit. Locally owned businesses, meanwhile —mom and pop stores on Main Street — face an economic crisis unlike any in recent history,” Cicilline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s investigation has turned up a pattern among the tech giants, he said. They control access to information and marketplaces, use that control to “surveil” rivals and protect their power, and favor their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put: They have too much power,” Cicilline said. For consumers, he said, this is reminiscent of previous American monopolies: railroads, oil and telephone companies, and even another tech giant — Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This investigation also goes to the heart of whether we, as a people, govern ourselves, or whether we let ourselves be governed by private monopolies,” he said. “Our founders would not bow before a king. Nor should we bow before the emperors of the online economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Republican Jim Jordan: “Big Tech is out to get conservatives”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s hearing is supposed to be about Big Tech’s power and market dominance. But Republicans are already trying to make it about something else: accusations that online platforms are biased against conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Tech is out to get conservatives,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in his fiery opening statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan then rapidly read aloud headlines making claims that conservative-leaning publications and voices have been suppressed or censored on Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also mentioned Twitter, even though it is not part of the hearing. Jordan said conservative members of Congress were “shadow banned” on Twitter. He said Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey said it was a glitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had a nickel for every time I heard it was just a glitch, I wouldn’t be as wealthy as our witnesses, but I’d be doing right,” Jordan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all think the free market is great. We think competition is great. We love the fact that these are American companies. But what’s not great is censoring people, censoring conservatives and trying to impact election,” Jordan said. “”If it doesn’t end, there has to be consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Jordan’s remarks, Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner also mentioned the belief, strongly contested by large tech companies, that conservatives do not get a fair shake by the online platforms, calling reports of conservative censorship troubling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Conservatives are consumers, too, and they need the protection of antitrust laws,” Sensenbrenner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing erupted in chaos after Jordan asked that Rep. Mike Johnson of the House Judiciary’s Constitution subcommittee be allowed to participate in the hearing. The request was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan then repeatedly interrupted antitrust subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, who was attempting to introduce Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about peoples’ liberties here,” Jordan said over Cicilline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Put your mask on,” Jordan was told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Bobby Allyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trump tweets: ‘Bring fairness to Big Tech’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing has gotten underway, after an hour-long delay. First up, we will get opening statements from the top members of the committee and the four CEOs. Then lawmakers will each get five minutes to question Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg. All four will be joining remotely, via video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The focus of the hearing, and the committee’s investigation, is competition — but expect lawmakers to be unable to resist bringing up other complaints about tech companies, from election security and the spread of misinformation to alleged anti-conservative bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s also the message coming from the White House, where President Trump has repeatedly accused tech companies of treating him unfairly. Shortly after noon, he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288506554585505793\">tweeted\u003c/a>: “If Congress doesn’t bring fairness to Big Tech, which they should have done years ago, I will do it myself with Executive Orders. In Washington, it has been ALL TALK and NO ACTION for years, and the people of our Country are sick and tired of it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our original story by Bobby Allyn continues:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid a time of rising tensions with China, some of the powerful CEOs will suggest that too much regulation could provide an opportunity for Chinese tech firms to gain a global toehold, according to opening remarks from the tech leaders \u003ca href=\"https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=110883\">released by\u003c/a> the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in values — democracy, competition, inclusion and free expression — that the American economy was built on,” Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will tell lawmakers, according to his prepared \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009144/Mark-Zuckerberg-Written-Testimony.pdf\">opening statement\u003c/a>. “China is building its own version of the internet focused on very different ideas, and they are exporting their vision to other countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person who will be making his first-ever appearance in front of Congress, will bring in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896500557/jeff-bezos-to-washington-my-dad-s-name-is-miguel-he-adopted-me-when-i-was-4\">his personal story \u003c/a>of being adopted by an immigrant father when he was 4 years old and spending his summers on his grandparents’ ranch in Texas, saying his upbringing instilled in him a work ethic that has helped Amazon prosper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s rise to becoming the largest online retailer, Bezos will say, is an achievement only made possible in America. But Walmart, he will point out, is still twice the size of Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not start out as the largest marketplace — eBay was many times our size. It was only by focusing on supporting sellers and giving them the best tools we could invent that we were able to succeed and eventually surpass eBay,” Bezos says in his \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009139/Jeff-Bezos-Written-Testimony.pdf\">released testimony\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google’s Sundar Pichai will steer attention to the other ways people navigate the online world, even though 90% of Internet searches happen on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have more ways to search for information than ever before — and increasingly this is happening outside the context of only a search engine,” Pichai \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009142/Sundar-Pichai-Written-Testimony.pdf\">plans to tell\u003c/a> the House panel. “You can ask Alexa a question from your kitchen; read your news on Twitter; ask friends for information via WhatsApp; and get recommendations on Snapchat or Pinterest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s Tim Cook will echo the appeals to patriotism raised among the other tech CEOs by touting how Apple’s strength, becoming the most valuable company in the world, represents success “only possible in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will also join the other tech leaders by arguing that Apple has plenty of competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The smartphone market is fiercely competitive, and companies like Samsung, LG, Huawei and Google have built very successful smartphone businesses offering different approaches,” Cook will say in \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009148/Tim-Cook-Written-Testimony.pdf\">his opening statement\u003c/a> to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether members of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee buy these arguments over the course of what is set to be an hourslong spectacle is another matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it remains to be seen if the public will gain new insight into the tech companies, and whether lawmakers can pin down answers from the typically cautious technology executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CEOs will be testifying via video at the same time, rather than one by one, a format seen as taking the heat off any individual executive and something the companies requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/894834512/big-tech-in-washingtons-hot-seat-what-you-need-to-know\">the hearing\u003c/a> centers on questions around market dominance, lawmakers are free to pepper the executives with questions about any topic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anything-goes format will likely divert the hearing away from antitrust and delve into issues like perceived anti-conservative bias on social media platforms, a common Republican refrain. And Democrats, often raising concern about foreign election meddling, may inquire about possible efforts to influence the vote online ahead of the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More on-topic probing could involve issues like acquisitions that have grown the reach of Big Tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.crunchbase.com/search/acquisitions/field/organizations/num_acquisitions/facebook\">has acquired\u003c/a> nearly 90 companies, including Instagram, WhatsApp and more recently, Giphy, a tool for creating animated images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How ever it goes, one thing is certain: It will be a day for the history books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is the first time all four technology leaders have testified together, as scrutiny over the companies’ nearly $5 trillion market power draws intensifying scrutiny in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CEOs will be on the defensive as House lawmakers grill them about whether the business empire each company has created has resulted in monopoly-like dominance that distorts the marketplace in their favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After enjoying more than a decade virtually free of federal regulation, House lawmakers are expected to make the case that it’s time for the technology behemoths to be held to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing caps a more than year-long House investigation into the Big Tech companies, which has probed whether the industry leaders box out competition, discourage innovation and pose larger threats to society and American democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Washington can keep the bipartisan focus on Silicon Valley, the hearing could set the stage for historic regulations, but the tech CEOs will be making the case to lawmakers that laws aimed at reining in the scale and power of each company are not necessary, contending that competition among rivals has not been squashed and that consumers have benefited from the technology sector’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You earn trust slowly, over time, by doing hard things well — delivering on time; offering everyday low prices; making promises and keeping them; making principled decisions, even when they’re unpopular,” Bezos will tell the subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unpopular among the four tech giants: the argument that the power each company has amassed over the years is being abused and needs to be held accountable by Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. 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That’s a key part of competition questions facing the social media giant. Critics accuse Facebook of buying or copying rivals — like Instagram and WhatsApp — to squash competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nadler said in its investigation, the committee got documents from Facebook in which Zuckerberg discussed \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1288540745637474306?s=20\">“neutralizing a competitor”\u003c/a> as a reason to pursue Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook saw Instagram as a threat that could potentially siphon business away from Facebook. And so rather than compete with it, Facebook bought it,” Nadler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg points out that the Federal Trade Commission okayed the merger at the time. “With hindsight it probably looks obvious that Instagram would have reached the scale that it has today, but at the time it was far from obvious,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline interjected to say that the “failures” of the FTC in 2012 do not mean it was not a violation of antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Panel chairman: Under coronavirus, big tech “likely to emerge stronger and more powerful” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up first is Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, chairman of the antitrust subcommittee that’s holding this hearing. He is the driving force behind the year-long investigation of big tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3200\">opening remarks\u003c/a>, he describes the dominance of each company: Amazon in online shopping, Apple in smartphones and apps, Facebook in social media and Google in search and ads. And he points out that thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, all four “are likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As American families shift more of their work, shopping, and communication online, these giants stand to profit. Locally owned businesses, meanwhile —mom and pop stores on Main Street — face an economic crisis unlike any in recent history,” Cicilline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee’s investigation has turned up a pattern among the tech giants, he said. They control access to information and marketplaces, use that control to “surveil” rivals and protect their power, and favor their own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put: They have too much power,” Cicilline said. For consumers, he said, this is reminiscent of previous American monopolies: railroads, oil and telephone companies, and even another tech giant — Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This investigation also goes to the heart of whether we, as a people, govern ourselves, or whether we let ourselves be governed by private monopolies,” he said. “Our founders would not bow before a king. Nor should we bow before the emperors of the online economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>–Shannon Bond\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Republican Jim Jordan: “Big Tech is out to get conservatives”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s hearing is supposed to be about Big Tech’s power and market dominance. But Republicans are already trying to make it about something else: accusations that online platforms are biased against conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Tech is out to get conservatives,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in his fiery opening statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan then rapidly read aloud headlines making claims that conservative-leaning publications and voices have been suppressed or censored on Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also mentioned Twitter, even though it is not part of the hearing. Jordan said conservative members of Congress were “shadow banned” on Twitter. He said Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey said it was a glitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had a nickel for every time I heard it was just a glitch, I wouldn’t be as wealthy as our witnesses, but I’d be doing right,” Jordan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all think the free market is great. We think competition is great. We love the fact that these are American companies. 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"content": "\u003cp>Facebook executives met Tuesday with civil rights leaders leading the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.stophateforprofit.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop Hate for Profit\u003c/a>” campaign, but failed to convince them the company is fully committed to clearing its platforms of toxic hate speech and misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the movement launched June 17, nearly \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1VSGhDwXm18yFf2BVCz0QJYFjCHrPhDuO-m5rCo0zoqI/htmlview?pru=AAABc07IqRo*rpmBjw36Hv_y33bbDhRLUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1,000 advertisers\u003c/a> from Blue Bottle Coffee to Blue Shield of California are boycotting the platform this month. That won campaign organizers a Zoom meeting with top brass at Facebook, but little else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The meeting we just left was a disappointment. Facebook has had our demands in multiple ways and they showed up to the meeting expecting an ‘A’ for attendance,” said Rashad Robinson of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://colorofchange.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Color of Change\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got no details, no clarity and no result,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Defamation League\u003c/a>. “Facebook should have a zero tolerance policy on intolerance, like every other company in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Coalition Outlined 10 Asks:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"font_8\">\u003cstrong>Accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"font_8\">1. 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Create expert teams to review submissions of identity-based hate and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"font_8\">10. 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That’s why it’s so important that we work to get this right. As a company, we have agreed to an independent civil rights audit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook also noted the company has “invested billions” both people and technology to keep hate off of the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that 100-page civil rights \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Civil-Rights-Audit-Final-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">audit\u003c/a> found “some significant improvements in the platform, we have also watched the company make painful decisions over the last nine months with real world consequences that are serious setbacks for civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditors go on to warn, “Facebook has made policy and enforcement choices that leave our election exposed to interference by the President and others who seek to use misinformation to sow confusion and suppress voting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before its release, Robinson expressed doubts the release would lead to any concrete change at Facebook. “We’ve been working with them for years, and we know there are a lot of good, well-intentioned people at Facebook, but the company is functionally flawed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11661473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11661473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS17635_sandberg-qut.jpg\" alt=\"In a Facebook post Tuesday morning, COO Sheryl Sandberg said the company would release on Wednesday the final report in a two-year-long civil rights audit of the company.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS17635_sandberg-qut.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS17635_sandberg-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS17635_sandberg-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS17635_sandberg-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS17635_sandberg-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a Facebook post Tuesday morning, COO Sheryl Sandberg said the company would release on Wednesday the final report in a two-year-long civil rights audit of the company. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica González, CEO of the media reform advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.freepress.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Press\u003c/a>, added she feels a sense of urgency in this political moment. “We’re tired of the dialogue because the stakes are so incredibly high for our communities as we get closer to the 2020 election — as we face COVID-19 and the impact that’s having in our communities, particularly the disproportionate death rates in Black and Latinx communities,” she said. “We’re seeing Facebook fail to meet the moment. 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