Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will be forced to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their handling of two recent New York Post articles containing unverified allegations about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Republicans say the social media platforms engaged in “suppression and/or censorship” in their decisions to moderate the circulation of the articles. (The Logic, CNBC)

Talking point: Lawmakers on both sides have taken aim at Big Tech lately for issues ranging from their alleged monopolistic behaviour to the platforms’ grip on information. Twitter initially chose to block users from posting or sharing the Post’s story, which contained information about Biden taken from emails the newspaper said were obtained from a laptop belonging to his son, Hunter. The platform later amended that decision after much outrage from Republicans, and allowed the story to circulate. Facebook chose a different route, by algorithmically reducing the story’s distribution while subjecting it to a fact-check. Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are already due to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee next week about alleged privacy issues. No date has been set for the Judiciary Committee hearing.