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The political highlight Tuesday was the joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees where Senators grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his company’s conduct for hours. Of course, a focus for three major liberal news networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) was the probing questions regarding the information allegedly used in the 2016 election. But they ignored questions by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ben Sasse (R-NE) regarding liberal bias and censorship of conservatives.
For those liberal networks, there appeared to be an effort to generate yet another excuse to explain why Democrats lost to Donald Trump. ABC Congressional correspondent Mary Bruce showcased a question by Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (D) about Facebook ads targeting swing states. “Were these people, the 87 million people, users, concentrated in certain states, are you able to figure out where they're from,” the Senator asked Zuckerberg. “Because as we know, the election was close and it was only thousands of votes in certain states.”
But for Senator Cruz, it was important to get Zuckerberg on the record and answer questions about the social media company’s alleged bias against conservatives. “Well Mr. Zuckerberg, I will say there are a great many Americans who I think are deeply concerned that Facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship,” Cruz declared.
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