The CEOs of any other industry would have been there. But that did not happen with Facebook, Google, and Twitter. For reasons that underscore the partisan divide in Congress, the majority did not insist on testimony from the CEOs. They settled for the general counsel of each company. These are very well-educated, successful lawyers, but they are not engineers. They are good at talking, but their familiarity with the inner workings of their firm’s products would have been limited. If the goal was to minimize the effectiveness of the hearings from the
