Mark Zuckerberg

"For the first time, we get an opportunity to be on the users' side."

"People don't want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services."

"His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people."

"What I want to try to find out is if you're not a newspaper at Twitter or Facebook, then why do you have editorial control over the New York Post?"

Tuesday's hearing is expected to be highly political.

Zuckerberg said the company shared some of the Biden team's same concerns about social media.

The Judiciary committee voted on Thursday to subpoena the two CEOs.

Trump said the companies are censoring him.

"This recent censorship controversy is just one more in a litany of instances in which these companies have shown utter disregard for being democratic public squares."

Facebook said it would continue to evolve its policies for identifying potentially dangerous organizations.

Google and Facebook took the sharpest jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from Democrats and Republicans.

"In the wake of COVID-19, however, they are likely to emerge stronger and more powerful than ever before."

The CEOs plan to defend themselves.

"We compete against the companies appearing at this hearing."

There is no truth in the speculation, Zuckerberg says.

The Facebook CEO offered his take on the Trump administration's pandemic handling.

"There is no place for racism in the world and there is no place for racism on social media."

"I'm committed to making sure Facebook remains a place where people can use their voice to discuss important issues, because I believe we can make more progress when we hear ...

In a blog post, Facebook said it would continue to protect political speech.

Zuckerberg told employees on a video chat that Facebook had conducted a thorough review and was right to leave the posts unchallenged.