Facebook and Twitter have said that they took too long to tackle foreign campaigns to meddle in US elections.
Responding to lawmakers, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the social network was “too slow” to act on election interference.
Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey said his platform was “unprepared and ill-equipped” for the “weaponisation” of debate.
Google did not show up to the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Opening the hearing, Democratic senator Mark Warner said he was “deeply disappointed” that Google “chose not to send its own top corporate leadership”.
