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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told reporters Monday that Facebook and Twitter could face “potentially serious campaign finance violations” for censoring stories unfavorable of Democrats while letting critical coverage of Republicans run rampant on their platforms.
“Giant multi-billion dollar corporations are making multibillion-dollar contributions to support [Democratic presidential nominee Joe] Biden,” Cruz said in response to a question about Facebook and Twitter’s selective censorship of Republicans. “It is at a scale never before seen in our election.”
Cruz said the social media companies “crossed a rubicon that they had not previously even dreamed of crossing” on Wednesday when they censored a New York Post story that reported an alleged meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and an executive of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2015 based on emails obtained from a laptop supposedly owned by the younger Biden.
Twitter outright blocked users from posting tweets that contained links to the Post’s reporting on Wednesday. The social media platform alleged, without evidence, that the story violated its Hacked Materials Policy. Twitter updated its policy on Friday, saying will block future articles only if they are “directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them.”
The associate director for the International Fact-Checking Network, Christina Tardaguila, said Thursday that Facebook and Twitter’s rush to suppress the Post’s reporting before it had been properly fact-checked was “dangerous,” adding that those who didn’t see the risks were “naive.”
Cruz said Monday that Facebook and Twitter’s censorship of the Post was a blatant attempt to interfere in the 2020 election.
“Big tech has taken the astonishing view that it has unlimited power to censor the media to prevent the American people from learning about these stories and to punish anyone who dares discuss facts that are inconvenient to the political narrative big tech favors,” Cruz said.
“This poses the single greatest threat to free speech in America today,” Cruz added. “It poses the single greatest threat to democracy in America today.”
Republicans are censored at a far greater rate than Democrats are on Facebook and Twitter, according to the conservative Media Research Center, which reported Monday that President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign have been censored on the social media platforms at least 65 times since May 2018. Trump’s opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, had been censored zero times in the same timeframe, MRC found.
Cruz, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he expects Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify about the censorship of the Post’s story on their platforms before his committee prior to the November election.
“I don’t have an exact date to announce, but my expectation is we hear testimony from both of them before the election because this level of censorship and election interference is dramatically greater than big tech has ever attempted,” Cruz said.
“One way or another, either voluntarily or pursuant to subpoena, they will testify and they will testify before the election,” Cruz added.
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In Canada REBEL NEWS editor Ezra Levant uncovered evidence that FACEBOOK actively suppressed positive information about the Conservative Party during the 2019 election. The left got positive press while the right got buried or deleted. There was enough tampering that the Liberal Crime Family under PM Justin Trudeau squeaked back to power enough to continue it’s social re-engineering of Canada. Many Canadians believe that social media’s complicity subverted the will of the electorate by manipulating information, FACEBOOK being one of the obvious offenders.
It is time North American’s wake up to these tactics of the left to create a false scenario of lies!
I tried to leave a post citing Trump’s accomplishments during the last 3 years or so. But FB would not let me publish it. I kept getting a msg, “unable to – – – – please try again later” I did, many times. But it never worked so I simply gave up. To see if maybe it was me, I tried posting another non-political msg – it worked.
Ted Cruz might be the one to finally eliminate these dogs by breaking up the companies, fining them all for billions of dollars + Goggle. Let’s hope this is not another inflated BS do nothing but make noise as so many years We the People have had to face and suffer.
It’s quite apparent that the Democrat party will never change they are the main trust of Criminal intent to deceive the People of America. Why do we not have public knowledge of the names of card carrying communist in our Government. Why do these scumbags not have to announce the fact that they are Communist or Communist sympathizers every time they go before the People, this should be absolutely mandatory.
Let me ask you! DO YOU KNOW YOU VOTED FOR A COMMUNIST? Most likely NO.
It’s long overdue We, the People our in charge not these public servants we vote for, No more outside income if you want to serve America and it’s People We’ll pay you a far salary with benefits equal to your job description. Many of you don’t know; That is the way it was UNTIL George HW Bush and Henry Kissinger wanted to start making billions from being the gatekeeper and profiting greatly.