Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked Sean Davis, the co-founder of "The Federalist," why they were the target of censorship on social media during the pandemic and the Biden administration, and what it cost them, during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday.

"They don't censor nobodies," he said. "They targeted us because we were effective."

"You cannot compensate someone for the crime of having shut them up by unjustified means for years. That speech that he should have been able to give--he can never give. That opportunity is gone," he said.

"But there's also a real cost in terms of money. I can't even begin to estimate how many millions--or tens of millions--of dollars we lost because our advertisers were targeted, our readers were targeted, and Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouT

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