Facebook insider testimony is valuable, but Congress should not make policy based on a former Facebook exec's recommendations any more than they would regulate cigarettes by listening to Big Tobacco. On Section 230, they should solicit testimony from what's left of the open web
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A synonym for "algorithm" is "spam filter", and the proposal to make every site that uses algorithms liable for speech is equivalent to repealing Section 230 entirely. The confusion around this point shows that Congress is not getting good information about how the web works.
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