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Internet giants Facebook, Twitter and Google took center stage in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday at a congressional hearing aimed to move forward in solving the problem of foreign influence campaigns on American social media networks. “We simply haven’t done enough,” Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said in a hearing focused on the twin failings of Silicon Valley and the U.S. federal government to deal with an intensifying global problem. “We were too slow to spot this and too slow to act,” Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg said. “That’s on us.” Despite the regular infusion of mea culpas, Sandberg and Dorsey touted improvements by both companies in combating foreign influence including, most pointedly, the recent removal of hundreds of accounts across multiple independent foreign campaigns. Last week, Facebook banned Myanmar’s commander-in-chief as ethnic violence continues in that country. Larry Page, the chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet, declined an invitation to attend the hearing. That […]

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