{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=25C143AA-3795-4391-8A91-B3364BC75898", "Thune Joins Fox News\u2019s Neil Cavuto to Discuss Social Media Censorship", "2020-10-15", "2020", "2020-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, today joined Fox News\u2019s \u201cYour World With Neil Cavuto\u201d to discuss Twitter\u2019s and Facebook\u2019s censorship of online material. Thune noted that the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google will be testifying in front of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation later this month.\n\nOn social media censorship (here):\n\n\u201cWell, I think they act as a filter, and they create a bubble for users. And they created algorithms for users to see what they think those users want to see. And this is a big problem. I mean you have got \u2013 you\u2019ve got, now, three companies essentially editing everything and limiting what the American people have access to in terms of users on these platforms. So, they\u2019ve got to be accountable.\u201d\n\nOn the Commerce Committee\u2019s hearing with big tech CEOs (here):\n\n\u201cYou now have essentially three companies that have virtually monopoly power in their space of the market, and I think there has to be some accountability. Now, the Democrats up until now, as you pointed out, have been interested in that as well. Currently it\u2019s Republicans, conservative content, that seems to be getting censored. But I would hope that there would be bipartisan interest in bringing these companies to account. Not only because of the monopoly power, but also because of the shield against liability that they have with respect to the way that they moderate content. Those issues need to be looked at, and it\u2019s time for Congress to have that conversation.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-28T00:34:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=25C143AA-3795-4391-8A91-B3364BC75898"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5780441462993622, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}