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John Duarte: “The administration [has] told Twitter and Facebook what to…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

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The 13th Congressional District w/ John Duarte

Published | Video Starts at 30:31

Well, there are a couple reasons. First of all, I absolutely see problems with social media, whether it's social media censorship, sometimes governed by the administration, as we see evidence of now, The administration [has] told Twitter and Facebook what to say and what not to say about Hunter's laptop or any other issue in the last election at critical times. That's very dangerous. Very dangerous. We have to start dealing with that. The section 230 protections that that these social media platforms get are there for bulletin boards where people don't control the content or entities don't control the content. (30:31–49:49)

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Asserts that the administration directed social media platforms on content related to Hunter's laptop and other issues during the last election.

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