Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. policy leads faced an onslaught of questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution hearing Wednesday over allegations their platforms disproportionately censor conservative speech.

Sen. Ted Cruz  R-Texas, the subcommittee’s chairman, has repeatedly raised concerns that social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Google show a “consistent pattern of political bias” in content moderation. He noted at the hearing’s start that his allegations are based on “just a handful of anecdotes” but that those anecdotes “seem to be consistently on one side of the spectrum.” Cruz said tech companies could conceal data showing bias.

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