Who knew it could get this bad?

In the past two weeks, Facebook Inc. outed fake accounts that bear marks of Russian foreign agents, the U.S. president called out Twitter for allegedly suppressing the visibility of conservative politicians, and Apple Inc., Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest all removed accounts or content from alt-right figurehead Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire, sparking a discussion about whether or not bans by tech giants constitute abridgement of free speech.

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