Sen. Mike Lee Asks For ‘List’ of People Who Have Had Adverse Action Taken Against Them At Social Media Hearing

We reported earlier on Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz grilling Social Media CEO’s Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and their labeling of tweets and posts at a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Before Cruz spoke, Republican Sen. Mike Lee (UT) questioned the pair if there was a “list” of people who have had adverse action taken against them on their platforms.

Zuckerberg responded that “Senator, I’m not aware of anything like that existing.”

Dorsey said that he wasn’t “exactly sure” what Lee was asking. When Lee attempted to clarify, Dorey was non-committal and said, “Well certainly, whenever we take an action, it’s recorded somewhere in a database, but I’m not sure if that’s your intent.”

“So what I’m hearing from both of you is that while there may not an actual list, and I want you both to check to see if such a list exists, even if there isn’t, there is a de facto list because you have in your database records of occasions when this occurred,” Lee replied.

The Utah Senator concluded by requesting such a list, if it exists, and if not, they “certainly have the data to generate” such a list and he requested that they do so and send it to him.

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Prior to that, Lee said he found it “a little disturbing” that Facebook tagged one of his posts about the presidential race with “voter fraud, which is historically rare, has not affected any outcome in this election” and that mail-in balloting was “conducted in accordance with state voting rules.”

He believes that the tag to him “sounds a whole lot more like state-run media announcing the party line rather than a neutral company, as it purports to be, running an open online forum.”

“This kind of editorializing insulates people from the truth and it insinuates that anyone concerned about voter fraud must be crazy,” pointing out how that could allow one party to gain an extra advantage.