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CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube-parent Alphabet Inc. will appear before a Senate committee on Oct. 28 to face questioning about their policies for moderating content on their internet platforms.

Airlines likely have enough cash to withstand a prolonged downturn, analysts say. But it will be years before passenger demand recovers, chief United and Delta executives said this week.

Facebook’s CEO long left politics and policy to deputies. No more. As the company’s influence has grown, and with it controversies, political acumen has become an essential tool.

The two-day event propelled consumers to spend billions more online this week, kicking off an end-of-year shopping season that is expected to be dominated by e-commerce shopping.

GOP senators said the Judiciary Committee would subpoena Jack Dorsey after his social-media company limited sharing of New York Post articles about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son.

The group of more than 100 are protesting NBC News’s decision to carry a town hall meeting with President Trump opposite a previously scheduled Joe Biden town hall on rival ABC News.

Twitter services were disrupted for more than two hours on Thursday with some users unable to send tweets or see them. The company said there is no evidence of a security breach or hack.

The social-media giant has made a flurry of new rules designed to improve the discourse on its platforms. When users report content that breaks those rules, a test by The Wall Street Journal found, the company often fails to enforce them.

The home-mortgage market, cloud-computing, and customer service are some of the sectors seeing high demand in a fourth quarter typically dominated by shopping-related seasonal hiring.

J&F, which controls the world’s largest meatpacker, agreed to pay $128 million to settle a long-running legal dispute in the U.S. over bribes it paid in Brazil.