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Social media giants face aggressive questions from Senate committee over Russian meddling

By Mike Swift ( October 31, 2017, 22:49 GMT | Insight) -- Contrite and concerned, three top lawyers with Facebook, Twitter and Google began two days of interrogation by Congress about the degree to which their platforms unwittingly enabled Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, insisting their countermeasures could limit future problems. But they faced probing and sometimes hostile questions from both Democratic and Republican senators in a hearing that suggested the tech giants face a difficult battle ahead preventing tighter regulation of their keystone online advertising businesses.Contrite and concerned, three top lawyers with Facebook, Twitter and Google on Tuesday began two days of interrogation by Congress about the degree to which their platforms unwittingly enabled Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, saying their countermeasures could limit future problems....

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