In November 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., threatened federal intervention if Silicon Valley failed to do more to curtail the spread of “fake news.”
“You created these platforms and now they are being misused. And you have to be the ones who do something about it — or we will,” the senator told executives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google during a congressional hearing.
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