Rep. Jim Jordan
James (Jim) Daniel Jordan Democrats blister Barr during tense hearing Nadler asks Republican members to stop ‘refusing to wear masks’ during Barr’s hearing when Democrats accuse Barr of distracting Trump from coronavirus MORE (Ohio), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, opened his testimony at Wednesday’s hearing on competition in digital markets by accusing Big Tech of censoring conservative voices.
“I’m going to get down to business, Big Tech is looking for conservatives,” Jordan said during his opening remarks at the hearing. “That is not a hunch, it is not a suspicion, it is a fact.”
Jordan’s comments came at the beginning of an audience with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook CEO. Mark Zuckerberg
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Great technology searches for conservatives. It is time for you to face the consequences. pic.twitter.com/jfPRPL1rZ1
– Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 29, 2020
The Republican lawmaker listed a series of cases in which social media companies have removed certain content, including misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic that the World Health Organization contradicts, arguing that there is active and systemic censorship.
He pointed to allegations that Google was censoring the right-wing site Breitbart News and that Amazon’s Twitch banned President Trump
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Trump’s account was only temporarily suspended for violating platform policies, and has since been restored.
Jordan also reminded the committee that it had pushed hard for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify during Wednesday’s hearing, although the company does not face the same antitrust scrutiny as others who appear.
Rank member of the subcommittee Jim Sensenbrenner
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