The lights in a Capitol meeting room went dark while the Oversight committee was questioning former Twitter employees about censorship.
The First Amendment protects Americans from censorship by the government, not by private-sector companies, a key distinction in the debate over social media companies’ “censoring” online speech. Republicans’ justification for this hearing rests, in part, on the allegation that the government has at times pressured Twitter to suppress certain posts or accounts, which could raise some First Amendment questions. Even then, it’sRep.
showing communications in which the FBI and other federal agencies flagged posts and accounts for Twitter to review as possible violations of its rules.
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