'Censorship Is Not a Hoax': Diamond and Silk Testify in Congress About Facebook Bias - CBN News Benjamin Gill

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'Censorship Is Not a Hoax': Diamond and Silk Testify in 

Congress About Facebook Bias

04-26-2018

CBN News Benjamin Gill

The pro-Trump, conservative, social media personalities known as "Diamond and Silk" claim Facebook has treated them like they’re a danger to the world. Facebook denies it, but the two women report the social media 

giant launched a campaign of "bias censorship and discrimination" against their D&S brand page. 

On Thursday they testified before Congress, passionately defending their claim and bashing the 

tech giant. 

"Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative 

voices such as ourselves by deliberately restricting and weaponizing our page with algorithms that 

censored and suppress our free speech," the women said.

"We've also noticed how someone with a liberal point of view that spewed hate against the 

President can garner up to 19 million views with only 539,000 followers, yet we have 1.2 million 

followers and only received 13,000 views on our video."

Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter refused to send a witness to testify at the House 

hearing which is called "Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms."

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In addition to Diamond and Silk, the hearing includes testimony from Republican Rep. Marsha 

Blackburn; Electronic Frontier Foundation Legal Director Corynne McSherry; News Media Alliance 

CEO David Chavern; and New York Law School Innovation Center for Law and Technology 

Director Ari Waldman.

"Censorship is not a hoax, it’s real. It is wrong for these social media giants to suppress and 

disregard people by diminishing and denying them their free speech. If social media is supposed 

to be a place for all idea(s) or to express idea(s) then algorithms and tactic(s) should not be in 

place to suppress some idea(s)," Diamond and Silk state.

The LIVE HEARING is BELOW. If you missed Diamond and Silk, scroll back in the video to watch.
Here's a link to Diamond and Silk's prepared testimony.

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