In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the Twitter CEO defended the policy that saw his social media platform label tweets that the company deemed spread misinformation or were factually inaccurate, while at the same time admitting the challenges of moderation. “We are facing something that feels impossible,” he told members of the committee, acknowledging that Twitter had improperly handled the New York Post-Hunter Biden controversy. (The New York Times, Politico)

Talking point: The committee invited Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear after both platforms took steps to limit the spread of the Post’s story in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election. While Republicans took issue with both Facebook and Twitter’s alleged bias in targeting right-wing accounts, Democrats blamed both social media sites for allowing hate speech to fester on their platforms. “You have built terrifying tools of persuasion and manipulation—with power far exceeding the robber barons of the last Gilded Age,” said Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. Zuckerberg insisted that Facebook did not “design the product to be that way.”