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Senior executives from Twitter and Facebook have been grilled by the US Senate Intelligence Committee answering questions on how they plan to prevent disinformation and meddling in the run-up to mid-term elections in November. Google was also invited - but did not attend after declining to send its chief executive, Sundar Pichai. We get an analysis of what was said today on Capitol Hill from Sarah Frier, Tech Reporter for Bloomberg, who had to cross the nation from her San Francisco base to be closer to the action.

Long distance truck drivers in America, it seems, are an aging work force. And that's prompted some in the business to push for a lowering of minimum age at which someone can get a Commercial Driver's License, or CDL, from 21 to 18. But that draft legislation - the Drive-SAFE Act - submitted to Congress earlier in the year - is opposed by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. We've been talking to Norita Taylor, on the line from Kansas City.