The CEOs of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft have been asked to attend a homeland security hearing.
on Monday to the CEOs of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft, requesting a briefing on March 27.
"This video was widely available on your platforms well after the attack, despite calls from New Zealand authorities to take these videos down," Rep. Thompson wrote, adding that violent acts of terrorism going viral could inspire"copycats.""You must do better. It is clear from the recent pattern of horrific mass violence and thwarted attempts at mass violence — here and abroad — that this is not merely an American issue but a global one," he wrote.
Thompson also threatened that if tech companies don't take the necessary steps to prevent the proliferation of violent ideologies on their platforms, Congress will have to step in. Tech companies aren't just coming under pressure from politicians. In New Zealand, three major telecom companies and internet providerson Tuesday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sudar Pichai, asking that they attend an"urgent discussion" on harmful content.
"We appreciate this is a global issue, however the discussion must start somewhere. We must find the right balance between internet freedom and the need to protect New Zealanders, especially the young and vulnerable, from harmful content," said the bosses of Vodafone NZ, Spark and 2degrees.
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