In an op-ed for The Hill published Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) praised Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and slammed Twitter’s Jack Dorsey for their diverging approaches to political speech following the social media giants’ recent policy announcements.
“For those who care about free speech, the last couple weeks saw two major developments from two people who have enormous influence over our public discourse,” Cruz writes. “First, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whom I have previously criticized, gave an important address in defense of free speech. In it, he explained Facebook’s new policy that they would not censor political speech, but would instead allow the marketplace of ideas, the back-and-forth of political debate, to resolve public policy disputes.”
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