https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-live-facebook-twitter-testify-at-senate-panel-wednesday-google-a-no-show/

Two years after Russian influence campaigns swarmed the internet, using the world's largest social media companies as platforms to spread disinformation and interfere in the 2016 presidential election in the US, lawmakers say they're prepared to take action.

In a Washington DC hearing held by the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, senators pushed Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about why their businesses run the way they do. But they also asked what the companies are doing to reduce the effect of internet trolls, false stories and provocateurs who incite violence.