Senators accuse big tech of bias
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
US politicians clash over how social media firms will moderate content in future. Plus, how inkjet printing tech could help ramp-up Covid-19 testing and research. And a solar-powered solution to a shortage of medical oxygen in developing countries. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporters James Clayton, Leo Kelion, and Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely to the US Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Credit: EPA/ Greg Nash/ POOL).
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| 0:50.9 | Three top tech bosses face a brutally partisan session in front of the US Senate over the way |
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