U.S. Senator Ted Cruz assailed U.S. technology companies this week and, in doing so, brought up one of American journalism's most tenacious myths — that William Randolph Hearst and his newspapers brought about the Spanish-American War 120 years ago.
In an interview with “Breitbart News Tonight,” Cruz declared that the “scope of the power” of Facebook and other tech companies “is truly unprecedented. You think back to the heights of yellow journalism, when publisher William Randolph Hearst controlled much of media and in fact got America into the Spanish-American War. Well, these tech companies have power William Randolph Hearst could never have imagined.”
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