Google and Facebook executives were placed on the defense this week as they were questioned on the role their platforms played in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol. Protesters who stormed the Capitol used Google-owned YouTube and Facebook, among other platforms, before and during the storming. Pressed on whether Alphabet, Google’s parent company, missed the extent of the danger, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this week that the company had been worried about “the possibility of real world harm” and “incitement of violence.” “I don’t want to say we clearly anticipated what happened last week, but the potential for violence was something concerning. There had been intelligence leading up to it,” Pichai said during the Reuters NEXT Conference. “Just like with elections four years ago and the potential for foreign interference, we are constantly learning from these moments, and the Internet I think as a whole needs …