Ted Cruz preparing effort to stem Big Tech’s ‘willingness to censor speech’

Published May 6, 2020 9:57pm ET



Driven by stories about coronavirus-related user content removed by YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, Sen. Ted Cruz wants to take on the social media giants again, saying the tech companies are using their influence to censor free speech.

The Texas Republican told the Washington Examiner Wednesday he planned to revisit his 2018 anti-censorship effort, which led to questions over whether Facebook was an online publisher or platform.

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