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Facebook, Twitter, Google executives to testify at U.S. Senate Russia hearing

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A 3D-printed Facebook logo is displayed in front of the Twitter logo, in this illustration taken October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Executives from Facebook Inc (FB.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google will testify on Tuesday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Executives from Facebook Inc (FB.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc&rsquo-s (GOOGL.O) Google will testify on Tuesday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter acting General Counsel Sean Edgett, and Richard Salgado, Google&rsquo-s director of law enforcement and information security, are among the witnesses at the hearing on &ldquo-ways to combat and reduce the amount of Russian propaganda and extremist content online,&rdquo- the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism said in a statement on Friday.

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