Meet the People Who Will Defend Google, Facebook and Twitter Before Lawmakers

Posted by New York Times

Meet the People Who Will Defend Google, Facebook and Twitter Before Lawmakers

Facebook, Google and Twitter have a lot at stake when they show up in Washington on November 1 to testify at congressional hearings about the role their technologies played in Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential elections.

To face the lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees that day, the internet companies are sending in their legal muscle: the general counsels. That way, the companies avoid putting their chief executives — Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, and Sundar Pichai of Google — in the spotlight to deal with questions and the full-blown public relations crisis over whether they are contributing to an undermining of democracy.

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