Lawmakers were widely panned for being out of touch when they grilled Mark Zuckerberg in April.
Next week, some of Silicon Valley's most powerful leaders will descend on Capitol Hill to face a grilling from lawmakers.
And if we're judging from the last high-profile tech hearings -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's showdown in the Senate and House in April -- lawmakers have nowhere to go but up when it comes to holding the tech industry accountable for cleaning up its messes.
After a combined 10 hours of testimony from Zuckerberg four months ago, Congress was widely panned for being out of touch with modern tech. Critics said lawmakers were wildly unprepared with their questions and in some cases didn't even understand the basics of the technology.
This time around, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will occupy the hot seats. Larry Page, CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, has also been invited, but the search giant hasn't confirmed whether he'll attend.
Next week's hearings bring a new opportunity for lawmakers to grill some of the most influential people in the world. Experts say Congress this time around needs to meaningfully question the tech leaders. The stakes are even higher than before: Foreign actors are still trying to meddle with public opinion, and people are even more suspicious of potential biases in tech's mighty algorithms. Yet the divide between the tech industry and the federal government seems wider than ever.
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