Also happening in D.C. today, executives from Facebook and Twitter will testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee:
Sandberg and Dorsey arrive for their Senate Intel hearing. I’ll be covering it today. pic.twitter.com/MBGNvuAUV9
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 5, 2018
And Alex Jones, who was booted from Facebook and YouTube, will most certainly come up:
So I'm guessing there will be some Qs about Alex Jones et al. https://t.co/lMviEzETim
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 4, 2018
Jones himself showed up at the hearing…
Alex Jones just showed up to the Senate tech company hearing pic.twitter.com/q75sdQ4SEd
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 5, 2018
…but was denied admittance to the chamber:
And Alex Jones was told he couldn’t go into the chamber. pic.twitter.com/nsRq60qtTB
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) September 5, 2018
And now the InfoWars host is gargling with reporters, saying there’s “an attempted purge of the first amendment” in America:
https://twitter.com/AliABCNews/status/1037335525957488641
And calling for a breakup of the “tech giants”:
Alex Jones is outside the Senate Intelligence hearing on social media calling for the breakup of tech giants pic.twitter.com/IuIZEzyR3b
— John Hendel (@JohnHendel) September 5, 2018
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According to Jones, President Donald Trump will issue executive orders on social media companies within the next two weeks:
https://twitter.com/EvanMcS/status/1037337225351098373
More from Jones:
Alex Jones of Infowars now en fuego talking to reporters outside the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. "This is dangerous authoritarianism"
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) September 5, 2018
NEW — moments ago on Capitol Hill, Alex Jones responds to my question about reports that Jack Dorsey personally overruled his staff to keep Jones/InfoWars on Twitter: pic.twitter.com/a56n7M9N1K
— J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) September 5, 2018
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