For years, Republicans have denounced tech companies’ policies barring hateful and misleading posts, alleging that a sweeping liberal censorship operation led by the Biden administration was forcing social media platforms to suppress conservative voices.

That campaign is running into an awkward new obstacle: President Donald Trump’s efforts to rein in liberal speech.

At a Wednesday Senate hearing, Democrats and Republicans agreed that such “jawboning” of private companies and institutions is a threat to democracy — but couldn’t agree on which party’s president was to blame.

While Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri) sought to focus the hearing on what he called the “vast censorship regime perpetrated by the Biden administration,” the committee’s Democrats swiftly dismissed the claim. Calling

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