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Vox / Peter Kafka / Jun 21, 2019
“New legislation proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) [is] supposed to rid Facebook, Google, and Twitter of supposed political bias. The idea is that the federal government will strip away protections that shield those companies from being held accountable for the content their users upload and they distribute — and will only restore those protections once the companies can prove they aren’t favoring one end of the political spectrum.”
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