[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 178 (Monday, October 19, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S6049]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               CENSORSHIP

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Last week, news broke about Hunter Biden's questionable 
financial dealings. That information, allegedly from Hunter Biden's 
laptop, appears to show that Vice President Biden may have been more 
aware of his son's financial dealings with foreign despots and 
criminals than he admitted to the American people. That information was 
quickly censored by big tech companies.
  Just today, DNI Director Ratcliffe said that Hunter Biden's laptop 
issue is not part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
  The Steele dossier is fake news, but I don't recall reporters and Big 
Tech censoring the false reporting about President Trump and the Steele 
dossier. Instead, the liberal media did just the opposite. They became 
superspreaders of false reporting across the world.
  What happened last week is election interference and anti-
conservative bias, and Facebook and Twitter are guilty. Democrats and 
liberals in the press can't have veto authority over information just 
because it makes their nominee look bad. They can't have a double 
standard. Vice President Biden owes the American people answers.
  I yield the floor.

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