it is 40 minutes. >> this is nancy scola who covers technology. served as technology reporter for "politico" here to talk about social media executives. good morning. a picture of two people appearing at these hearings. talk to viewers about who is on capitol hill and why they were there. >> yesterday morning, sheryl sandberg, chief operating officer testified before the intelligence committee on election security committee as a social media platforms by foreign adversaries and was joined by the ceo of twitter, jackck dorsey and then jack gota quick lunch break and travel to the other side of capitol hill to the house energy and commerce committee are hearing where he testified on the idea of twitter might be biased and conservative. >> what's the significance you had these platforms talking about these types of issues in front of legislators? >> it's been a long time coming. the idea they didn't do enough in the election coming from russia. they were by their own admission somewhat slow to take responsibility forhe that. much of the testimony was

this is nancy scola. she is here to talk about social media executives. there is a picture of two people appearing at the hearings. about whor viewers was on capitol hill and why they were there. nancy: yesterday morning, the chief operator testified for an intelligence security. joined by the ceo of twitter, jack dorsey. by the ceo of twitter, jack dorsey. jack then travel to the other side of capitol hill to the house for the energy and commerce committee where he testified so low on the idea that twitter may be biased. host: what is the significance that you had the ceos of these platforms to talk about these issues? guest: it has been a long time coming. the companies are in the spotlight for they didn't do enough in the election by russia. in their own definition they were slow to take action in that. a lot of their testimony was acknowledging they were slow to act. so it is significant to have them with push and pull. jack dorsey's first testimony and he has been the ceo for quite some time. so to have him up there answering questions was significant

host: this is nancy scola, the technology reporter for politico. there is a picture of two people appearing at these hearings -- tell viewers about who was on capitol hill and why they were there? guest: sheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer of race book testified on election security and the use of platforms by foreign adversaries in the u.s. election process. she was joined by the ceo of twitter, jack dorsey. jack then travel to the other side of capitol hill to the house for the energy and commerce committee where he testified so low on the idea that twitter may be biased. host: what is the significance that you had the ceos of these platforms to talk about these issues? guest: it has been a long time coming. the companies are in the spotlight for they didn't do enough in the election by russia. in their own definition they were slow to take action in that. a lot of their testimony was acknowledging they were slow to act. so it is significant to have them with push and pull. jack dorsey's first testimony and he has been the ceo for quite

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host: this is nancy scola, the technology reporter for politico. there is a picture of two people appearing at these hearings -- tell viewers about who was on capitol hill and why they were there? guest: sheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer of race book testified on election security and the use of platforms by foreign adversaries in the u.s. election process. she was joined by the ceo of twitter, jack dorsey. jack then travel to the other side of capitol hill to the house for the energy and commerce committee where he testified so low on the idea that twitter may be biased. host: what is the significance that you had the ceos of these platforms to talk about these issues? guest: it has been a long time coming. the companies are in the spotlight for they didn't do enough in the election by russia. in their own definition they were slow to take action in that. a lot of their testimony was

this is nancy scola. she is here to talk about social media executives. there is a picture of two people appearing at the hearings. about whor viewers was on capitol hill and why they were there. nancy: yesterday morning, the chief operator

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