Commentary By Annelise Butler is a research associate in the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation. The Big Tech companies consistently hide behind their algorithms when called to account for inconsistent content moderation and account suspension. Such was the case when the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology, and the law on April 27 held a hearing titled “Algorithms and Amplification: How Social Media Platforms’ Design Choices Shape Our Discourse and Our Minds.” Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have been accused of intentionally designing their algorithms to promote and amplify certain content, while hiding or even suspending other content for no specified reason.