No, social media isn’t biased against conservatives
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The CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter testified Wednesday at a Senate hearing that was supposed to be about a fundamentally important internet law called Section 230 — which is about liability protection for tech companies. Instead, the hearing ended up being about how much power big tech companies hold, and how they wield it. Republicans accused social media platforms of anti-conservative bias, but Marketplace Tech’s Molly Wood says the evidence does not support that.
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