Republican Senators Want Twitter to Stop Editorializing Comments or Lose Immunity

Social media was supposed to be the great equalizer, but a new study suggests that most elected officials in Canada, the United States, and elsewhere are struggling to connect with people on Twitter. Matt Rourke/The Canadian Press/AP

Republican Senators spoke out against Twitter’s labeling of President Trump’s comments while refraining from fact checking his political opponents’ comments.

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) suggested that Twitter and other big tech companies lose the immunity afforded to them by the federal government if they are choosing to go from a “forum” to a publisher status.