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> Those actions, Alphabet officials said in a letter to Mr. Jordan from their law firm, were “well-intentioned,” but they added, “The Company recognizes it should never come at the expense of public debate on these important issues.”> Alphabet’s admission followed Mr. Jordan’s yearlong investigation into online censorship practices that appeared to target conservative viewpoints.> The Ohio Republican issued a round of subpoenas seeking information from social media giants regarding their censorship of right-leaning voices.> YouTube started banning users shortly after the contentious 2020 presidential election.> In December of 2020, YouTube announced it had “terminated” more than 8,000 channels and thousands of “harmful and misleading” videos related to the 2020 election, including content that alleged “widespread fraud or errors” had skewed the election results.> Company officials said in the same announcement that third-party “fact check information panels” were “triggered” more than 200,000 times on election-related content related to voting machine integrity and state recounts.> Google was accused of demonetizing conservative media publisher The Federalist in 2020, along with the conservative website ZeroHedge, among others.> “Google owes us all damages for what their censorship cost us,” Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis said Tuesday. “A quick ‘we’re sorry’ now that they’re in trouble isn’t going to cut it. Their censorship cost us millions.”> Content bans snared prominent users, among them Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican.