All six witnesses representing Big Tech companies before a Senate committee last week mentioned “misinformation,” “disinformation” and/or “hate speech.”
Lawmakers have argued over retooling Section 230. The concern is that big tech firms and social media giants like Meta, Twitter and others enjoy a legal shield safeguarding them from challenges to what their users post.
TikTok is serving up misinformation to users searching for news about politics, climate change, Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and more, according to a report released Wednesday.
A top executive for the video app TikTok Inc, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd, told a US Senate panel that it’s negotiating with federal regulators on restricting access to user data for employees in China, but declined to commit to a total cutoff.