Senate Republicans Vote To Subpoena Facebook and Twitter CEOs About Alleged Censorship

[TheStrength]

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify about their handling of a recent unverified New York Post article about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. From a report:

Twelve Republicans on the committee voted to authorize the subpoenas and ten Democrats sat out the markup in a protest of the session’s earlier vote on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Zuckerberg and Dorsey are already set to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee next week alongside Google CEO Sundar Pichai about alleged bias and privacy matters. The Judiciary Committee voted to compel the Facebook and Twitter CEOs to testify about their “suppression and/or censorship” of two recent New York Post articles involving unverified allegations about emails supposedly taken from a computer belonging to the Democratic presidential nominee’s son, Hunter Biden. The initial story alleged the younger Biden attempted to introduce a top executive at a Ukraine company he worked for to his father while he was serving as VP. The Democratic nominee has called the story a “smear.” Facebook and Twitter took very different approaches to moderating the article, which contained unredacted email addresses in documents included in the story.