司法委员会的共和党议员希望推特美国首席执行官杰克·多西将和其他几位科技高管一起在下周的小组听证会上作证。
应众议院民主党人的要求，亚马逊(Jeff Bezos)、苹果(Tim Cook)、Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg)和Alphabet/Google(桑德尔·皮帅)的首席执行官已经准备在7月27日的听证会上就数字市场的竞争作证。
俄亥俄州共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)周三致信纽约民主党主席杰罗德·纳德勒(Jerrold Nadler)，称听证会在没有多尔西的情况下将是不完整的。
乔丹写道:“我们认为，如果不审查Twitter的做法和行为，听证会将是不完整的。”
乔丹指出，共和党人7月8日写信给多尔西，要求了解其内容审核政策，但多尔西尚未回应。
2018年9月5日，推特首席执行官杰克·多西在国会参议院情报委员会宣誓作证。
此外，乔丹认为，从推特上听到“两党都感兴趣”，除其他外，“其最近高度公开的安全漏洞的原因”——可能暗指大规模推特黑客攻击本月早些时候，包括乔·拜登、巴拉克·奥巴马、埃隆·马斯克和坎耶·韦斯特在内的知名人士受到影响，这显然是比特币计划的一部分。
乔丹写道:“当委员会考虑大型科技公司和竞争格局时，彻底的调查不能排除社交媒体的市场领导者Twitter。”“即将举行的听证会是一个重要而独特的机会，作为委员会调查的一部分，可以探讨与推特有关的这些问题。”
在本月早些时候的另一份声明中，纳德勒和反垄断委员会主席大卫·西奇林(David Cicilline，D-R.I)宣布了听证会和大量技术证人，称他们一直在调查“少数数字平台的主导地位以及现有反垄断法律和执法的充分性。”
他们的联合声明补充说:“鉴于这些公司在美国人民生活中发挥的核心作用，他们的首席执行官们的积极参与至关重要。”“正如我们从一开始就说过的，他们的证词对我们完成调查至关重要。”
多尔西没有公开回应邀请。
2018年9月，推特的联合创始人确实在参众两院委员会面前作证。
House Republicans call on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to join hearing with Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google chiefs
Republican lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee wantTwitter's CEO Jack Dorsey to join several other tech executives who are testifying at a subcommittee hearing next week.
At the request of House Democrats, the CEOs of Amazon (Jeff Bezos), Apple (Tim Cook), Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) and Alphabet/Google (Sundar Pichai) are already set to testify at the hearing on July 27 about competition in the digital market place.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking Republican on the committee, sent a letter on Wednesday to Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., saying the hearing, however, would be incomplete without Dorsey.
"We believe that the hearing would be incomplete without an examination of the practices and conduct of Twitter," Jordan wrote.
Jordan noted that Republicans wrote to Dorsey on July 8 to request information about its content moderation policies, but Dorsey has not yet responded.
CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey is sworn in to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 5, 2018.
Moreover, Jordan argued there is "bipartisan interest" to hear from Twitter about, among other things, "the causes for its recent highly publicized security breaches" -- likely alluding to themassive Twitter hackearlier this month that impacted high-profile figures including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Kanye West as part of an apparent Bitcoin scheme.
"As the Committee considers large technology companies and the competitive landscape, a thorough examination cannot exclude Twitter, a market leader in social media," Jordan wrote. "The upcoming hearing represents a significant and unique opportunity to explore these issues with respect to Twitter as part of the Committee’s investigation."
In a separate statement earlier this month announcing the hearing and the slew of big tech witnesses, Nadler and Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, D-R.I., said that they have been investigating "the dominance of a small number of digital platforms and the adequacy of existing antitrust laws and enforcement."
"Given the central role these corporations play in the lives of the American people, it is critical that their CEOs are forthcoming," their joint statement added. "As we have said from the start, their testimony is essential for us to complete this investigation."
Dorsey has not publicly responded to the invitation.
The Twitter co-founder did testify in front of both Senate and House committees in September 2018.
