Democrats canceled a House hearing scheduled for next week in which Twitter CEO Elon Musk was asked to testify about the spread of 'climate disinformation' on social media.
On Nov. 18, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Environment, wrote letters toasking them to attend the hearing that had been slated for Dec. 14, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Khanna invited new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and executives of TikTok and YouTube to testify.
Khanna said he would call tech company executives to testify as part of the investigation and would issue subpoenas if they refused to cooperate. He vowed in the same interview to probe the alleged role social media companies have"played in the dissemination of disinformation."
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