Plus: Wisconsin Republicans Launch Investigation of 2020 Election
March 26 2021
Happy Friday from Washington on the day after President Biden meets reporters for his first formal press conference. Our Fred Lucas sorts the hourlong session. The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter appear to welcome more regulation during a House hearing as lawmakers press them to explain censorship and “misinformation” on their platforms, Jarrett Stepman reports. On the podcast, commentator Deroy Murdock prescribes how conservatives can reach more blacks. Plus: how the left plays with racism and misrepresents the history of voting rights. On this date in 1969, the group Women Strike for Peace holds the first major anti-war demonstration in Washington since President Richard Nixon’s inauguration two months earlier.
A broad theme from Democrats during the hearing was that social media companies simply can’t be trusted to regulate their own platforms appropriately, especially after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
“The best thing to do is knock on the doors, go to the black churches, go to the black businesses, go to the black schools ... and talk about these ideas and why they’re good for America,” says Deroy Murdock.
The same sources decrying anti-Asian sentiment have spent years expressing anti-Asian animus in the form of discriminatory college admissions standards.
