In her opening remarks at a House judiciary hearing, Rep. Stacey Plaskett says “social media companies actually amplify conservative voices”
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Citation From the March 30, 2023, House Judiciary Select Subcommittee Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
REP. STACEY PLASKETT (D-VI): We're holding a hearing on what? Missouri v. Biden, in some alleged deep-state effort to censor conservatives online. That allegation is nonsense. As we discussed extensively in the hearings, as the Chairman has said before, social media companies, deep-pocket private companies, social media companies, actually amplify conservative voices. They do less to censor those voices. And everyone here should be alarmed when that amplification pushes out false and dangerous narratives. False narratives such as January 6 being a deep-state effort. False narratives such as COVID vaccines do harm. False narratives suggesting that President Trump won the election. In fact, that's the real reason we're here. Republicans know that these are false narratives, and they know that the Americans know the truth. So they are grasping for a way to spin the truth. And how do you do that? You tell an untruth. A lie. Misinformation. Over and over and over and over and over again, and eventually people believe it. Some people right here in this audience believe it.