Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined a chorus of leftist voices begging Big Tech to censor more aggressively, hearkening back to the days of even more aggressive content moderation.
Warner went after X and TikTok for their lack of cooperation with the government before complaining to MSNBC Anchor Katy Tur that most major social media companies had supposedly censored content less aggressively since 2020. Warner expressed his disappointment with this approach during the Thursday edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports.
“Frankly, TikTok in terms of trying to work with the government on this misinformation, disinformation, they and X are two of the entities that are least involved in our effort,” Warner said, “But let me also be clear. Every one of the social media companies—Facebook, Instagram, YouTube—they have all cut back on their own content…
