Republican leaders of the
Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday called on the CEOs of
Facebook and
Twitter to testify before the committee and said they were prepared to issue subpoenas to compel testimony regarding their decisions to censor negative stories about
Democrats.Senators Ted Cruz (R., Texas), Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) announced that the Committee would vote on a subpoena on Tuesday for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify on Friday, October 23, according to
Fox News.“This is
election interference and we're 19 days out from an election,” Cruz said. “It has no precedent in the history of democracy. The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know what the hell is going on.”Hawley called on the committee to also subpoena Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg.The Committee's concern comes after news that both
Social Media platforms had worked to suppress a
New York Post report based on emails which suggest the younger Biden may have made an introduction between his father, then- Vice President
Joe Biden, and a Ukranian adviser to Burisma Holdings in 2015. The authenticity of the emails has not been confirmed.