On April 9th 2019, the United States Judicial Committee held a hearing to investigate the role of social media in the increase of hate crimes and white nationalism. Of the many people who testified, the news coverage of this event was mostly focused on the comments of conservative political figure Candace Owens. The news coverage was centered around when senator Ted Lieu played a clip of her “legitimizing Hitler” (House, 2:59:10). Many news sources were quick to point out other problems with Candace’s comments such as when she claimed the southern strategy, when the republican party appealed…