NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission has signaled massive legal liability for tech firms who censor news content, but at a conference for an entire industry dedicated to doing just that, there was little to no introspection on display.
Hundreds gathered for a “Brand Safety Summit” in New York just before the election last month, where they strategized on how to keep advertising dollars from going to news outlets that promote “misinformation.” The conference was sponsored by major tech firms such as TikTok, Meta, Google, and Snap.
Absent from discussion was any reflection on how they had gotten it horrifically wrong, censoring true stories like the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election and dismissing as a conspiracy theory the idea that COVID leaked from a Chinese lab. In a Q&A portion of a panel, The Daily Wire asked what lessons had been learned from those examples. But the panelists did not express particular…
