Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Facebook and Twitter’s actions around the closely contested election on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Washington. (Hannah McKay/Pool via AP)
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UPDATED 1:03 PM PT – Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The CEO’s of Facebook and Twitter recently testified virtually before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Tuesday’s hearing with Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey focused on the tech companies’ handling of the 2020 election.
Republican lawmakers called for the hearing after both platforms decided to censor a New York Post story regarding Joe Biden and his son’s foreign business dealings.
Additionally, many conservatives, Americans and lawmakers have reported being shadow-banned and censored by the social media giants.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pressed the tech executives on their roles as editors.
“What I want to try to find out is: if you’re not a newspaper at Twitter or Facebook, then why do you have editorial control over the New York Post?”-@LindseyGrahamSC pic.twitter.com/3waJP7QFkX
— GOP (@GOP) November 17, 2020
Graham noted, it seems social media is acting like the “ultimate editor.”
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