by Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit:

The House Civil Justice Subcommittee held a hearing on the State of Intellectual Freedom in America

The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft discussed and brought evidence of the widespread censorship and elimination of conservative content on Facebook.

The witness panel includes:
Jim Hoft Founder and Editor The Gateway Pundit
Adriana Cohen Syndicated Columnist Boston Herald Radio Host
Jeremy Tedesco Vice President of U.S. Advocacy Alliance Defending Freedom
Ari Waldman Professor of Law New York Law School
Harmeet K. Dhillon, Esq. Partner Dhillon Law Group Inc.

There were two sessions today discussing the targeting of conservative voices online. The Democrats on the panel complained about how much money Congress was wasting by holding the hearing. (I paid my own way there.)

The first panel included: Dr. mike Adams, Dr. Peter Wood, Mike Simkovic, and Dr. Tim Groseclose.

After listening to Democrats today it is clear they are very satisfied with Facebook and the tech giants eliminating conservative voices online.
There is no doubt about this.

Here is Jim Hoft’s complete 5 minute testimony on the panel today.

And here is the complete text of Hoft’s testimony today.

Jim Hoft Statement for the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice

September 27, 2018

Good morning.

Thank you, Chairman King and subcommittee members for organizing this important hearing today.

Your colleagues in Congress have provided a lot of airtime recently to prominent CEOs of tech companies who are trying to put me, and others with my politics, out of business. I thank you for allowing me to speak, instead of the perpetrators.

My testimony today is how the purification of thought has been accomplished by one company with a monopoly-like hold on the public commons in our internet era.

My name is Jim Hoft and I am the owner and editor of The Gateway Pundit (TGP) website based in St. Louis, Missouri.

I’m somewhat known in my business for my headlines. Here is the headline I bring to you: In the run-up to the 2016 election Americans got to choose what they read on Facebook. Today, Facebook chooses for them.

It is your constituents, left and right, rich and poor, who are impacted by this thought-filter imposed on what most believe is an unfiltered forum. It is they who are unknowingly cut off

from content they seek.

I grew up in Iowa, and I understand the pulse, the struggles, the hopes and dreams of Middle America. I came to find out Facebook doesn’t like my type.

I launched Gateway Pundit in 2004 as a way to report on news that I didn’t see the

mainstream media covering. At first, I had two or three daily readers, including my friend Chris and my twin brother, Joe. I was humbled and amazed to see our content grow in popularity over the years to nearly one million readers a day thanks to promotions by Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds, The Drudge Report and others.  We provide news coverage and opinion that Americans could not find elsewhere.

There is no way to account for the demand for our content, on a shoestring budget we

offered something the American people desired: real news. We were ranked by Harvard and Columbia Journalism Review as the 4^th most influential conservative publisher in the 2016 election.[1]

Our readers: smart, patriotic, and diverse, have not given up on the promise of America.  This is who I represent in speaking with you today.

2016 was a transformative election year.

This was the first election where Americans rejected, en masse, their legacy media options and turned to the freedom of choice and lack of filter on social media instead, through which

they would share, comment on, and connect with content like mine.

We may not be invited to gala dinners and attend award shows, but our reporting is fulfilling a vital role of providing truthful content that is competition to the sanitized, on-message news of legacy media.

In fact, it was our readers who, on Election Day, were not surprised by the outcome.

The Gateway Pundit business cultivated its audience on Facebook, spending roughly $70,000 advertising on Facebook in 2015 resulting in 600,000 Facebook likes and supporters.

Over the past 19 months, Gateway Pundit saw a decline in our Facebook traffic from 24% of total website traffic in January 2017 to 2% of total website traffic in June 2018.

This is an 88% decrease in traffic from Facebook.

Recently we analyzed traffic numbers for some of the top conservative publishers in the U.S. What we found was simply shocking. Just as Gateway Pundit had been eliminated by Facebook from being seen by its readers, Facebook eliminated 93% [2]of combined referral traffic to these websites from January 2017 to May 2018.

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