{"id":969,"date":"2021-03-26T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/tech-ceos-grilled-over-role-in-capitol-attack-as-protesters-mock-them-with-giant-cutouts\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:27:12","slug":"tech-ceos-grilled-over-role-in-capitol-attack-as-protesters-mock-them-with-giant-cutouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/tech-ceos-grilled-over-role-in-capitol-attack-as-protesters-mock-them-with-giant-cutouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech CEOs grilled over role in Capitol attack as protesters mock them with giant cutouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters outside the Capitol denounced the platforms as Facebook, Twitter and Google heads questioned by Congress<\/p>\n<p>The CEOs of America\u2019s biggest technology companies faced a grilling on Thursday from Congress about the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol, as protesters outside the hearing denounced the platforms for playing a role in fueling the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon, six-hour hearing saw the three most powerful men in tech \u2013 Sundar Pichai of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\">Google<\/a>, Mark Zuckerberg of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> and Jack Dorsey of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a> \u2013 testify before two committees of the House of Representatives on social media\u2019s role in promoting extremism and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/mar\/25\/us-congress-tech-hearings-capitol-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/01da25874a649c5e31414cf57e420e6bf8879246\/0_69_2048_1229\/master\/2048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e0c131a7a2628568dc0fa54faad88187\" title=\"Tech CEOs grilled over role in Capitol attack as protesters mock them with giant cutouts\" \/>Protesters outside the Capitol denounced the platforms as Facebook, Twitter and Google heads questioned by Congress<br \/>\nThe CEOs of America\u2019s biggest technology companies faced a grilling on Thursday from Congress about the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol, as protesters outside the hearing denounced the platforms for playing a role in fueling the violence.<br \/>\nThe marathon, six-hour hearing saw the three most powerful men in tech \u2013 Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter \u2013 testify before two committees of the House of Representatives on social media\u2019s role in promoting extremism and misinformation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters outside the Capitol denounced the platforms as Facebook, Twitter and Google heads questioned by Congress The CEOs of America\u2019s biggest technology companies faced a grilling on Thursday from Congress about the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol, as protesters outside the hearing denounced the platforms for playing a role in fueling the violence. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/tech-ceos-grilled-over-role-in-capitol-attack-as-protesters-mock-them-with-giant-cutouts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech CEOs grilled over role in Capitol attack as protesters mock them with giant cutouts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}