and ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) each took the tech giants to task — albeit for very different reasons. “My concern is that these platforms have become powerful arbiters of what is true and what content users can access,” Wicker said. He invoked a “long trail of censorship and suppression of conservative voices on the internet,” drawing on long-running Republican claims that social media limit the spread of right-wing content. Cantwell, meanwhile, highlighted concerns about the role of social media in the decline of local news and Russian election interference. AdvertisementDorsey responded that Twitter does not have a generic policy against misinformation, but rather, against three categories of misinformation: manipulated media, public health and election integrity.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 28, 2020 14:06 UTC