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    Facebook, Twitter and Google have become political footballs for the left and right. This week, Congress get its kicks in

    by David Pierson, Los Angeles Times Sep 04, 2018 4 minutes

    Facebook, Google, and Twitter find themselves on the defensive from both ends of the political spectrum. And they have no one to blame but themselves, critics say.

    To grow their businesses, tech platforms replaced print media and network news as the chief distributors of information. And they've taken pains to appear neutral - not the least because they don't want the complicated job traditionally assigned to journalists of determining what's fact and fiction.

    But in the Trump era, where notions of truth have rarely been viewed through a more partisan lens, being neutral means having to deliver conspiracy theories such as "Pizzagate," which imagined a child sex ring being run out of a pizza restaurant

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