US Senate to issue subpoenas for Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai – CNET [CNET]

The US Senate Commerce committee on Thursday voted to issue subpoenas to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai, as Congress considers changes to liability protections granted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. 

The three tech CEOs would appear before the committee as witnesses, but the date of the hearing hasn’t been determined.

In July, Zuckerberg and Pichai both made virtual appearances before a House antitrust subcommittee, along with the CEOs of Amazon and Apple.

Twitter and Facebook declined to comment on the subpoenas, but Facebook noted that its executives have testified in front of the Senate Commerce committee three times in the last three years, and have testified over 20 times in front of US congressional committees in the last four years.

Google didn’t respond to a request for comment.