UPDATE 2: Watch the House Intelligence Committee hearing live here.
UPDATE: Watch Senate Intelligence Committee hearing live here.
Recode is live blogging here.
Today, Google’s senior vice president and general counsel Kent Walker is testifying instead of director of law enforcement and information security Richard Salgado.
Representatives for Facebook, Twitter, and Google are on Capitol Hill this week, testifying before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism on Tuesday at 2:30pm ET (Watch live here or here), the Senate Intelligence Committee at 9:30am ET Wednesday (Watch live here), and the House Intelligence Committee at 2:00pm ET (Watch live here).
PBS NewsHour reports Facebook and Twitter are sending general counsels Colin Stretch and Sean Edgett, respectively. Google’s director of law enforcement and information security Richard Salgado will appear on his company's behalf.
Terrorism analyst Michael S. Smith and Clint Watts -- Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow, former FBI agent, and CIR Advisory Board member -- also will testify Tuesday.
The Washington Post summarizes just how much Russian operatives used the social media platforms:
Facebook plans to tell lawmakers on Tuesday that 126 million of its users may have seen content produced and circulated by Russian operatives, many times more than the company had previously disclosed about the reach of the online influence campaign targeting American voters.
Google acknowledged for the first time Monday that it had found evidence that Russian operatives used the company’s platforms to influence American voters, saying in a blog post that it had found 1,108 videos with 43 hours of content related to the Russian effort on YouTube. It also found $4,700 worth of Russian search and display ads.
Twitter also plans to tell congressional investigators that it has identified 2,752 accounts controlled by Russian operatives and more than 36,000 bots that tweeted 1.4 million times during the election, according to a draft of Twitter’s testimony obtained by The Post. The company previously reported 201 accounts linked to Russia.
So what exactly should lawmakers be asking tech companies in the wake of these revelations? Wired has suggestions:
Are ads really the biggest problem? What about the ways propaganda can spread through ordinary posts?
When did these companies begin actively looking for clues related to Russia?
How did Facebook identify Internet Research Agency?
Whom did the ads target and do those targeting categories resemble any used by the Trump campaign?
What about Google?
Why did Facebook, Twitter, and Google embed with the Trump campaign?
Should online political ads be required to disclose who paid for the ad, as TV and radio spots are?
WATCH LIVE: Facebook, Twitter, Google to testify in Senate hearing on Russia (PBS NewsHour)
WHAT CONGRESS SHOULD ASK TECH EXECUTIVES ABOUT RUSSIA (Wired)