Lawmakers questioned the chief executives of Twitter and Facebook at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over the social media platforms’ content moderation practices, with Republicans accusing the companies of censoring President Donald Trump’s posts about the U.S. election, as well as those of other conservatives.
While Democrats on the committee critiqued the Nov. 17 hearing as what Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called a “political sideshow,” lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were mostly in agreement that Section 230 should be reformed, or potentially fully repealed.
