Wall Street Journal report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf the report is true, DeSantis said, Facebook violated Florida law, and must be held accountable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The thought of Facebook clandestinely manipulating elections is an affront to the basic principles of our republic,” DeSantis wrote. “We the people have the right to choose our representatives, whether or not Silicon Valley approves.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Florida governor Ron DeSantis ordered his secretary of state to investigate Facebook for “alleged election interference.” The move comes in the wake of a report in The Wall Street Journal, showing that “the tech giant put its thumb on the scale of numerous state and local races by exempting elite users from Facebook\u2019s own rules,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":30918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[306],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/desantis.png?fit=781%2C521&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33578,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33577\/revisions\/33578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}