Nets Censors Grilling of Big Tech at Conservative Censorship Hearing

Nicholas Fondacaro | November 17, 2020
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At a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Senate Republicans torched the liberal CEOs of Facebook and Twitter for their sleazy censorship of conservatives on their platforms. Ironically, the events at the hearing were subsequently censored by ABC, CBS, and NBC as they refused to share the news during their evening newscasts. Instead, they chose to fear-monger about President Trump’s refusal to concede, suggesting it was a national security threat now.

In fact, this wasn’t the first time the broadcast networks censored the censorship hearing. At the end of last month, they refused to cover how the CEOs were brought before Congress to answer for their attempted and failed cover-up of the Hunter Biden story.

Fox News Channel correspondent Gillian Turner was the one to share news from the hearing with Special Report viewers Tuesday. “Republicans on the Senate Judiciary panel went all-in on accusations that anti-conservative bias has infected every aspect of Twitter and Facebook, they also noted the irony of Twitter's ban on a New York Post stories about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings,” she reported.

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