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In a contentious antitrust hearing on Wednesday, four of America’s tech titans (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google) were grilled by Democrats and Republicans about their shady business practices. House Republicans came down hard on the issues of political bias and censorship of conservatives. But while ABC’s World News Tonight ditched covering the hearing altogether, CBS Evening News defended efforts by Facebook and Google to censor conservative outlets like NewsBusters.
While ABC anchor David Muir dedicated two back-to-back segments to bashing President Trump, CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell announced: “For the first time, the titans of tech testified together before Congress. Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Google's Sundar Pichai were confronted with charges of stifling competition and political bias.”
After explaining how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos responded to the grilling from Democrats, chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes defended Facebook’s censorship of conservatives. And despite how congressional Republicans provided ample evidence of political bias, Cordes brushed it off by only focusing on how Facebook deleted a video Trump posted.
“Well, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his company does prohibit content that could harm people, and so his platform others took the video down,” she chided.
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