Joint Hearing: “Disinformation Nation: Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation”

Subcommittee on Communications and Technology (Committee on Energy and Commerce)
Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce (Committee on Energy and Commerce)

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Washington, D.C.

Witnesses

Support Documents

• Hearing Notice [PDF]
• Briefing Memo [PDF] Added 03/22/2021 at 05:35 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter from Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from New America's Open Technology Institute [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from NY Small Farma, Ltd. [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Statement from Alphabet Workers Union [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letters from the National Black Justice Coalition [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document for The Record - A Letter from Sikhs for Justice [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from State AGs [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from the Computer and Communications Industry Association [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from AVAAZ [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Blog from Neil Fried of Digital Frontiers Advocacy [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from the Music Community [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A Letter from the Disinfo Defense League [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document for the Record - A Letter from Consumer Reports [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - A report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate called the Disinformation Dozen [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter from the Coalition for a Secure and Transparent Internet (CSTI) [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter from CSTI - support attachment - FTC Response to Rep. Latta [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter from CSTI - support attachment - ICE Response to Rep. Latta [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter from CSTI - support attachment - Facebook [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter from gun violence survivors (Faces of Tech Harm Congress) [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter from the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Documents For The Record - Data from the Centers for Disease Control, The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the Mercado, Holland, Leemis, Stone, and Wang (2017) regarding teen mental health - Rep. Castor [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter From Rep. Malinowski and Rep. Eshoo to Facebook [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter From Rep. Malinowski and Rep. Eshoo to Twitter [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Document For The Record - Letter From Rep. Malinowski and Rep. Eshoo to YouTube [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Rep. Rice - Document For The Record - Report from House Veterans Affairs Committee [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A longitudinal analysis of YouTube’s promotion of conspiracy videos [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A Letter from the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A comment by Donovan et al from The Technology and Social Change Team [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A Wall Street Journal Article titled, “Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make Site Less Divisive” [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A Voice of America Article titled, “FBI: Surge in Internet Crime Cost Americans $4.2 Billion” [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A Global Research Project report [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An Opinion Article titled, “Google is Not Cracking Down on the Most Dangerous Drug in America” [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An MIT Technology Review Article titled, “How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation” [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An Article from The Independent [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An Article from The New Yorker [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For the Record - A Letter from the Coalition of a Safer Web [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A New York Times Article titled, “Tech Companies Detect a Surge in Online Videos of Child Sex Abuse” [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An MIT Review Article titled, “Thank you for posting: Smoking’s Lessons For Regulating Social Media” [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An Article from Imprimis [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An Article from the Atlantic [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A New York Times Article titled, “Square, Jack Dorsey’s Pay Service, Is Withholding Money Merchants Say They Need” [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A response letter from Twitter to Rep. Rodgers [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A response letter from Google to Rep. Rodgers [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - A Response Letter from Facebook to Rep. Rodgers [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Minority - Document For The Record - An Article from Engadget [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Rep. Cardenas - Document For The Record - A Letter Regarding Spanish Language Misinformation [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM
• Rep. Castor - Documents For The Record - Data from the Centers for Disease Control, The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the Mercado, Holland, Leemis, Stone, and Wang (2017) regarding teen mental health [PDF] Added 04/01/2021 at 01:02 PM

Member Statements

• Opening Statement of Rep. Anna Eshoo - Chair of the Subcommittee on Health [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Frank Pallone - Chairman of the Full Committee [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Jan Schakowsky - Chair of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers - Ranking Member of the Full Committee [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Robert E. Latta - Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Gus Bilirakis - Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce [PDF] Added 03/25/2021 at 05:42 PM
• Opening Statement of Rep. Mike Doyle - Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology [PDF] Added 08/24/2021 at 10:36 AM

Hearing Record

• Attendance [PDF] Added 03/29/2021 at 04:06 PM
• Preliminary Transcript [PDF] Added 04/14/2021 at 05:02 PM

First Published: March 18, 2021 at 04:11 PM
Last Updated: October 13, 2022 at 12:42 PM