The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter say they want to be transparent about their biases against conservatives, but "of course they don't," Rep. Steve Scalise said Wednesday.
"They want to continue to censor conservatives," the Lousiana Republican said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" a day after Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey were grilled by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "The bulk of their employees are liberal. They should run the liberal social media platform."
Scalise said that Big Tech's "coordination, collusion, and censorship against conservatives" was on full display during Tuesday's testimony.
"Sen. [Ted] Cruz asked, 'Would you commit to giving us the numbers on how many conservatives have you blocked versus how many liberals have you blocked?'" said Scalise. "They have that data. They just wouldn't commit to showing it. They sit there and say they want to be transparent."
Dorsey also admitted during the testimony that it was a mistake to censor the New York Post's stories concerning Hunter Biden, but Scalise retorted that the company's "bias against conservatives is not a mistake, it's a bias."
"Somewhere around over 90% of all of their employees [who] donate to campaigns donate to Democrats, so everybody has political views," said Scalise. "You are supposed to check those at the door if you act as a publisher. They aren't just letting content out there. The idea they should have the Section 230 protections against being sued shouldn't apply if you are starting to pick and choose whose views you put out in the public square. That's what they are doing."
Meanwhile, Trump is exposing the major discrepancies in how states run their elections with his continued push in several locations, said Scalise.
"You can take large states like Texas and Florida," he said. "Both had results within a matter of hours on election night. A lot of people turned out. A lot of mail-in ballots. States like Pennsylvania and Michigan are smaller than Texas and Florida and they still haven't certified. They still haven't finished counting in some cases and major discrepancies are showing up in some large cities and it's days for them to come up with an initial count."
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