Tulsi Gabbard is amping up her censorship allegations against the tech industry
Democratic presidential candidate , adopting one of President Donald Trump’s favorite lines of attack before going on Wednesday night’s debate stage.
Google has disputed the accusations. A spokesperson said in a statement last week that the Gabbard ad suspension was brief and triggered automatically, and that the company moderates content "without bias toward any party or political ideology."It's far from the first time the search giant has had to contend with censorship allegations. Trump accused Google and other tech giants in a March tweet of being "on the side of the Radical Left Democrats.
Cruz, like Trump, has been an outspoken critic of what he calls widespread suppression of conservative speech online and abuse of power by tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter. His Senate Judiciary subcommittee has already held two hearings this year zeroing in on those claims, including one devoted specifically to censorship concerns at Google.
And Sen. Josh Hawley , who has quickly emerged as one of the tech industry's most vocal antagonists in Congress, said that “anything that shines a light” on the “evasive practices” of Google, Facebook and Twitter should be considered a positive step.
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