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World Business Report: First broadcast 28/10/2020 15:32 GMT: Tech chiefs face US Senate questions on internet law

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Tech chiefs face US Senate questions on internet law

First broadcast 28/10/2020 15:32 GMT

First broadcast 28/10/2020 15:32 GMT: Tech chiefs face US Senate questions on internet law

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Tech chiefs face US Senate questions on internet law

Google, Twitter and Facebook CEOs defend a key piece of internet law in front of senators

As we go to air the chief executives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google begin questioning by senators over Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects web companies from liability when it comes to content posted by users. We go live to the hearings and hear from independent tech analyst Stephanie Hare on its significance. Also in the programme, the nuclear industry is pinning its hopes on mass-producing small, cheap power stations to compete with renewable energy. Our chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt has been to visit the headquarters of a new consortium led by the UK engineering giant Rolls Royce, which says it can manufacture a new small modular reactor in the next ten years.

(Picture: Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg; the CEOs of Google, Twitter and Facebook, respectively. Credit: Getty Images.)

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