American congressmen have criticized the country's three largest social networks, threatening CEOs with all kinds of control. Facebook, Twitter, and Google CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai answered questions from lawmakers in a Congressional committee hearing

Congressman Peter Welch has announced the possibility of creating a government agency with the authority to develop and enforce rules on the Internet.

A month after Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced antitrust law aimed at big technology, the House compared Facebook, Twitter, and Google to old-fashioned monopolies like Standard Oil and Ma Bell.

Congressmen slammed Facebook's plans to create Instagram for children under 13.

Instagram currently requires users to be 13 or older, but Zuckerberg admitted that the only control was to ask new followers to indicate their age. Facebook has promised parental controls on the new Instagram, but the committee members weren't impressed.

At a hearing that lasted more than five hours, they noted that disinformation harms children, veterans, minorities, civil rights, democracy, and public health through disinformation.

Republican Dan Crenshaw has been more outspoken, accusing Democratic members of their complaints of disinformation amounting to political speech they disagree with. According to him, Republicans are worried about illegal content, while Democrats want to muffle free speech.

Several participants expressed serious concerns about the impact of social media on children.

Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone took a fight with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Pallone argued against the fact that they put profit above all else, namely, benefit from algorithms that can create sensational content.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg said Facebook did its part in defense of last year's presidential election by blaming former President Donald Trump for the Capitol riots directly, TechCrunch reported.