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 U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Vidalia) is on a mission when it comes to speaking out against what he sees as big tech’s censorship attempts aimed at conservatives.

“Do we think that they're going to require vaccine passports for us to vote in the next election?” Nunes asked during a recent speech at the Freedom Festival he hosted. "We have to expose the hypocrisy. They always accuse us of being violent rioters, yet it's antifa, it's BLM, it's other left- wing shock troops. They accuse Republicans of being intolerant, but it's the socialists in big tech corporate America, the media and our own government institutions, who are trying to censor us in every possible form.”

Nunes points to what he sees as Republicans being banned from such platforms as Facebook and Twitter as glaring examples of the bias that has become prevalent.

“Google's not trying to help Republicans when the search results hide anything that’s center right or conservative,” he added. “Simon and Schuster were not responding to conservative pressure when they canceled Republican Sen. Holley's book, which actually criticized the same big tech corporations.”

Republicans seem to believe the bias illustrated by social media companies has become so pronounced it may now be actually bridging the divide between far-right extremist groups and supporters of former President Donald Trump .

Social media companies moving to suspend Trump’s accounts in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have done little to quiet any of those cries.

In the recent aftermath, former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie tweeted, “The elite have made the decision to do the biggest possible, the biggest imaginable crackdown on the right wing. We are all going to be portrayed as terrorists, Donald Trump is being stripped of his assets and is probably going to jail. They’re shutting down all the websites and apps and everything else and the feds are coming to your house.”

In a recent poll, nine in 10 Republican and independent voters who lean Republican indicated they think it is “at least somewhat likely that social media platforms censor political viewpoints they find objectionable,” a five percent uptick from a 2018 Pew Research Center poll.

Through it all, researchers continue to insist they’ve uncovered no evidence to support GOP grievances that tech companies target conservative voices. Still, that hasn’t quieted the storm, especially with Trump having made “social media abuses” a major plank in his reelection platform.