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Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a few weeks ago told \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/thum10e7B2Q\">Fox’s Maria Bartiromo\u003c/a>, who has hundred of thousands of followers herself on Parler. “A handful of Silicon Valley billionaire are now telling media companies they get to decide what stories you can write and what stories the American people can read,” Cruz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"election coverage\"]This week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are expected to testify at a congressional hearing called by Republican lawmakers upset that the platforms limited the reach of an unsubstantiated New York Post article critical of Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like where we’re heading is two competing social media ecosystems if leaders from across the political spectrum and across civil society don’t restore public trust,” Goldenberg said. “Because if there’s no public trust in our institutions, people are going to look elsewhere for answers, and where they find those answers could be very dark places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if labeling certain posts as being disputed or potentially containing misinformation is pushing users toward these third-party sites, should Facebook, Twitter and YouTube stop doing it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still think that they need to do what they’re doing,” said professor Jenn Daskal, who directs the Tech, Law and Security Program at American University Washington College of Law. “Adding labels to speech that is clearly blatant misinformation is good, adding friction to the platforms to reduce virality of conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation is helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “It ought to be where all political persuasions can communicate and interact as long as they are doing so in ways that are not purposefully disseminating blatantly false information. 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"content": "\u003cp>Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan are running out of places to espouse their views online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook banned these high-profile personalities and several others from its social media platforms Thursday, becoming the latest tech company to officially declare them \u003cem>persona non grata\u003c/em>. Many of them have already been banned from Twitter, YouTube and Apple's Podcasts app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11738783' label='More Social Media Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Jones and Farrakhan, Facebook also kicked out right-wing extremists Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer and Joseph Watson, who works for InfoWars; white supremacist Paul Nehlen, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2016 and 2018; and Jones' company, Infowars. 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A Facebook spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html\">told CNN\u003c/a> that the company undertakes a lengthy review process before a ban, looking at factors such as whether someone has called for violence, and whether they use hateful slurs to describe themselves in their \"About\" section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/02/facebook-bans-extremist-leaders-including-louis-farrakhan-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos-being-dangerous/?utm_term=.574b021c7afe\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> that Facebook's actions were \"authoritarian,\" saying that they never gave him any direct notice that they found his posts \"dangerous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media network has come under pressure for allowing hate to spread online. Its move comes not long after the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which the killer livestreamed a video that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704690054/facebook-admits-mosque-shooting-video-was-viewed-at-least-4-000-times\">viewed more than 4,000 times \u003c/a>on Facebook before it was taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The timing is never an accident,\" Angelo Carusone, president of the liberal organization Media Matters, told the Post. \"The reality is, people are getting killed. There are mass shootings and mass murders that are clearly being connected to ideas like white genocide, which are fueling radicalization. The conditions have changed. When you have these massive catalyzing moments that are connected to real-life consequences, it puts pressure on Facebook and others to look in the mirror.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some free speech advocates have cautioned that Facebook's attempts to police hate speech could lead to unintended consequences. When Facebook announced in March that it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707258353/facebook-bans-white-nationalism-and-separatism-content-from-its-platforms\">upping its efforts to ban white nationalism\u003c/a> from its platform, ACLU staff attorney Vera Eidelman cautioned that \"every time Facebook makes the choice to remove content, a single company is exercising an unchecked power to silence individuals and remove them from what has become an indispensable platform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1124020603688820740\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eidelman told NPR nothing is stopping Facebook or other platforms from using that same power to censor content on other topics, such as abortion rights or climate change. \"For the same reason that the Constitution prevents the government from exercising such power, we should be wary of encouraging its exercise by corporations that are answerable to their private shareholders rather than the broader public interest,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In posts on other platforms, the banned individuals expressed their displeasure at the decision. \"Reports are true. I have been banned by Facebook,\" Watson wrote on Twitter. \"In an authoritarian society controlled by a handful of Silicon Valley giants, all dissent must be purged.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because it took \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-bans-alex-jones-extremists/\">longer than expected\u003c/a> for Facebook to purge the accounts, the banned individuals were able to let followers know which other platforms they'd be moving to. Loomer was pessimistic about her chances of being heard in the future. \"Looks like you guys will probably never hear from me again. It's only a matter of time before they ban me here too,\" Loomer \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-facebook-instagram-ban-kicked-deleted-1413210?utm_source=GoogleNewsstandUS&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Partnerships\">wrote\u003c/a> on Instagram. \"Thank you for all your support. But I guess it's time for me to go to the gulag.\" She added \"#StopTheBias,\" a hashtag she has embraced to protest what \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/facebook-anti-conservative-bias-solution/\">some conservatives perceive\u003c/a> as bias on the big social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/20/705021469/facebook-apologizes-for-banning-trumps-social-media-director\">temporarily banned\u003c/a> comments by President Trump's social media director, Dan Scavino, after his postings were flagged by an algorithm. A Facebook spokesperson apologized, explaining that Scavino was banned because he had tagged so many people in his comments that automated bots thought he was a spammer. \"I will be looking into this!\" Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1108028566791471104\">tweeted\u003c/a> about Scavino's ban, adding: \"#StopTheBias.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the six individuals have been banned from the site, \"users may still praise those figures on Instagram and share content related to them that doesn't violate other Instagram and Facebook terms of service,\" according to reporting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/instagram-and-facebook-ban-far-right-extremists/588607/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20190502&silverid-ref=MzQ1NzMxMzI0NzI3S0\">The Atlantic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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