House Panel to Grill Facebook, Twitter, Google on Terror Content (2)

The House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing June 26 on online terrorist content featuring testimony from Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., and Alphabet Inc.'s Google.

Lawmakers also will explore social media companies’ efforts to crack down on misinformation.

Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of global policy management, Nick Pickles, Twitter’s global senior strategist for public policy, and Derek Slater, Google’s global director of information policy, are scheduled to testify.

A Facebook spokesman declined to comment beyond confirming that a company representative will testify. Spokespeople for Twitter and Google didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

The hearing comes ...