Facebook, Twitter execs defend non-censorship of WikiLeaks

By Steven Nelson

Published September 5, 2018 4:54pm ET

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Facebook, Twitter execs defend non-censorship of WikiLeaks — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, accompanied by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in D.C. | (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The world’s largest social media companies defended their decisions not to censor primary-source document publisher WikiLeaks, telling senators Wednesday the organization has done nothing that would justify being muzzled.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., extracted corporate explanations after calling WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service” at an open hearing of the Senate intelligence committee.

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