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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri received a broadside of complaints before a Senate committee on Wednesday over what lawmakers see as the company’s lack of action to protect teens using its platform. The Meta-owned site, along with other popular platforms like TikTok and Snapchat, have been at the center of lawmakers…

Joe Biden’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the FCC, Gigi Sohn, faced a string of questions — from past tweets about Fox News to her role in the streaming service Locast — as she faced a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday. While most nominees to the FCC get through with relatively little turbulence, Sohn’s longtime…

The latest news out of the latest congressional hearing on tech platforms’ content moderation practices was from Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, who said that he’s open to a rethink of Section 230. That’s the provision of a 1996 law that gives Facebook, Twitter, Google and other platforms immunity for the way…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret for allowing an app to harvest the personal data of millions of its users and for reacting too slowly to respond to Russian interference during the 2016 election in formal remarks submitted to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Zuckerberg described Facebook as an…

TV station owners dodged a bullet last night, although possibly just temporarily, as the Senate Commerce Committee drafts a must-pass bill that governs satellite companies’ dealings with broadcasters.  Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Ranking Member John Thune (R-SD) agreed to take out a broadcast a la carte…