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Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.

The ability of a handful of people to control our public discourse has never been more obvious.

World leaders enjoy exceptions on the social media platforms, but that can change once they no longer hold office.

Content moderation came up the most. Republicans asked more questions. And Mark Zuckerberg was on the hook for more answers.

The executives, who have now testified several times in recent years, will most likely face some new questions about how they handled the election.

Even some basic questions about how an array of Twitter’s most popular accounts were taken over remain unanswered.

Small businesses say the Twitter chief’s other company is holding on to 30 percent of their customers’ payments during the pandemic.

Inside the company, one faction wanted Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief, to take a hard line against the president’s tweets while another urged him to remain hands-off.

The companies have similar policies on the limits of what they allow users to post. But Facebook is more permissive when the user is President Trump.

The social media company came under fire — again — for not removing Mr. Trump’s posts that contain falsehoods.

The founder of Twitter and Square said he was putting nearly a third of his total wealth toward the effort.

Twitter has said it will ban all political ads. But what is or isn’t a political message is often in the eye of the beholder.

The social media company’s action is a stark contrast to that of Facebook, which is taking a hands-off approach to political advertising.

Twitter posted worse-than-expected third quarter revenue and profit, which the company attributed to advertising problems and unusually low demand over the summer.

Mr. Dorsey’s account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats on Friday afternoon. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.