Jack Dorsey is leaving Mark Zuckerberg to fight Section 230 alone

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is ready to cut a deal. At a March 25 congressional hearing on tech companies’ role in spreading misinformation, Zuckerberg called on lawmakers to reform Section 230, the all-important provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that protects platforms like Facebook from being sued over anything their users post.

Angry politicians from both sides of the US political spectrum have called for the repeal of Section 230—for vastly different reasons. Democrats say the law protects tech companies that haven’t done enough to stop the spread of misinformation, while Republicans want to punish platforms for their alleged persecution of conservative users. Without Section 230’s protections, tech companies would be exposed to immense legal risk that could upend their current business models, which rely on letting users post content with minimal moderation. Few companies are more at risk than Facebook, which has been implicated in everything from spreading pandemic misinformation to helping terrorists organize attacks.

Zuckerberg testified remotely before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce alongside Google’s Sundar Pichai and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey.  Although the hearing was meant to focus on misinformation, it became an all-hands drubbing of the CEOs over everything from their market dominance to the fate of a local Republican party organization’s Facebook page. Much of the conversation centered on Section 230 which lawmakers appeared to see as leverage to demand commitments from the technology executives.

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