Lawmakers warn Big Tech CEOs over 'censorship and suppression of conservative voices'

Republicans Wednesday warned the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Google they could lose federal lawsuit liability protections following apparent censorship of conservative content on their social media platforms.

The online hearing, however, was slowed down by a big tech glitch: Twitter CEO Mark Zuckerberg was unable to connect to the hearing, forcing a recess.

The hearing initially began with Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker citing Twitter’s and Facebook’s decision to block a story by the New York Post, about about potentially incriminating contents of three laptops believed to have...