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Senior executives from Twitter and Facebook have been grilled by the US Senate Intelligence Committee answering questions on how they plan to prevent disinformation and meddling in the run-up to mid-term elections in November. Google was also invited, but did not attend after declining to send its chief executive, Sundar Pichai. We get an analysis of what was said today on Capitol Hill from Sarah Frier, Tech Reporter for Bloomberg. A global construction boom is driving demand up for builders, most of whom are men. Complaints about discrimination and hostile work environments have kept women away, but things are starting to change. The BBC's Zoe Thomas in New York visited one programme introducing girls as young as six to jobs in the trades. Presenter Fergus Nicoll is joined by Professor Peter Morici of the University of Maryland from Washington DC and Tony Nash, chief economist at Complete Intelligence in Singapore. (Picture: Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Credit: Getty Images.)