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: Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Time: 10:00am

Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226

Presiding: Chair Coons

Witnesses

Monika Bickert

Vice President for Content Policy

Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

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Lauren Culbertson

Head of U.S. Public Policy

Twitter

San Francisco, CA

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Alexandra Veitch

Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy for the Americas and Emerging Markets

YouTube

San Bruno, CA

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Tristan Harris

Co-Founder and President

Center for Humane Technology

San Francisco, CA

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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

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