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Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine


At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…

The senators have wide-ranging support from their respective parties: Republicans Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn and Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse and Amy Klobuchar have agreed to co-sponsor the bill. Every major platform already has robust policies for removing non-consensual intimate imagery, supported by industry-wide programs like NCMEC’s Take It Down system and StopNCII ‘s hashing database. Which brings us back to the core question: how could these Democratic Senators support a plan that would simultaneously give Donald Trump unprecedented censorship powers while also consolidating Meta’s control over online speech?

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