Conservatives to Jeff Sessions: Attacking Facebook will empower ‘President Elizabeth Warren’

Published September 21, 2018 10:46pm ET



Using antitrust laws to coerce Facebook and Twitter into setting Republican-friendly content policies violates their First Amendment rights, libertarians and tech groups are warning Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

But that’s not the only danger they see in Sessions’ attempt to gather a meeting of top state prosecutors to discuss whether the Silicon Valley firms are hurting competition and stifling conservative opinions: Such a move would also empower Democrats to employ the same tactics, to opposite ends.

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