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Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law

Algorithms and Amplification: How Social Media Platforms’ Design Choices Shape Our Discourse and Our Minds

Type: Subcommittee Hearing
Date:
Time: 10:00am
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226
Presiding: Chair Coons

Witnesses

  • Ms. Monika Bickert

    Vice President for Content Policy
    Facebook
    Menlo Park, CA
  • Ms. Lauren Culbertson

    Head of U.S. Public Policy
    Twitter
    San Francisco, CA
  • Ms. Alexandra Veitch

    Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy for the Americas and Emerging Markets
    YouTube
    San Bruno, CA
  • Mr. Tristan Harris

    Co-Founder and President
    Center for Humane Technology
    San Francisco, CA
  • Dr. Joan Donovan

    Research Director
    Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and Lecturer in Public Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
    Cambridge, MA