Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, asked the Facebook founder point blank, "do you subjectively manipulate your algorithms to prioritize or censor speech?"

"We don't think about what we're doing as censoring speech," Zuckerberg answered. "I think that there are types of content like terrorism, that I think that we all agree we do not want to have on our service. So we build systems that can identify those and can remove that content, and we're very proud of that work."

Blackburn retorted that "Diamond and Silk is not terrorism," referencing the pair of popular conservative video bloggers flagged as "unsafe" by Facebook. Zuckerberg said earlier in the hearing that the judgment was made in error and that Facebook representatives had already contacted Diamond and Silk to reverse it. However, the bloggers say they have not received any follow-up from Facebook since taking the judgment public.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-LA, also raised the subject, referencing Facebook head of news partnerships Campbell Brown's February declaration that the platform would start "having a point of view" as to what constitutes "quality news."

"I do want to ask you about a study that was done dealing with the algorithm that Facebook uses to describe what is fed to people through the news feed," Scalise continued, "and what they found was after this new algorithm was implemented, that there was a tremendous bias against conservative news and content, and a favorable bias toward liberal content."

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