Capitol Hill hearing on 'censorship industrial complex' under Biden based on 'fiction', says expert

A Capitol Hill hearing held to explore supposed government censorship under Joe Biden was based on a "fiction", a leading expert on countering online disinformation told members of Congress on Tuesday. Nina Jankowicz, head of the American Sunlight Project, a pro-democracy organization, went on the offensive at a House of Representatives foreign relations subcommittee meeting held to examine the existence of an alleged "censorship industrial complex", which Republicans claim was established to stifle rightwing views on social media, rather than combat foreign propaganda, as officially stated. Having been labeled a "spearhead" and "tsarina" of such efforts by the committee's Republican…