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World Service,26 Mar 2021,53 mins

US tech bosses grilled over disinformation

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The heads of Facebook, Google and Twitter have been questioned by US politicians - in the first hearing since the storming of the US Capitol in January. We speak to Issie Lapowsky, senior reporter at protocol.com, about how such platforms might be regulated in future. The Ever Given container ship remains wedged across the Suez Canal despite attempts to pull it free. We ask Angus Blair, professor of practice at the American University of Cairo's Business School, how this will affect Egypt's economy and about the impact on international shipping. Plus, we analyse what President Joe Biden said during his first official press conference. Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme by political reporter Erin Delmore in New York and by Patrick Barta, the Wall Street Journal's Asia Enterprise Editor, in Bangkok. (Picture: Facebook, Twitter and Google logos. Credit: Getty Images)

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