Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: Congress held a hearing on hate, and it went exactly as you thought it might Congress called the leaders of tech to a hearing on the rise of hate crimes and white supremacy, but instead of illuminating solutions and building bridges, the haters got their way and the tech giants got off scot free. The hearings were mostly full of arguments and partisanship, an unfortunate par for the course that led to no real answers or progress on the issue.

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