(Reuters) – U.S. Senator Josh Hawley has found a new publisher for his book after being dropped by Simon & Schuster following the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.
The book, titled “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” criticizes large technology companies such as Google and Facebook. The day after the attack on the Capitol, Simon & Schuster announced that it would no longer publish the senator’s book.
Conservative publisher Regnery Publishing will now publish the book in summer 2021, its parent company Salem Media Group said in a statement on Monday.
Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, had previously called for the Electoral College votes of states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden to be rejected.
Hawley, 41, was elected to the Senate in 2018. He was the first member of his chamber to announce that he would join an initiative by conservatives in the House to challenge the normally ceremonial process of certifying the electoral college vote count.
He came under fire after the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, which delayed the certification of Biden’s election victory that day by several hours as lawmakers were forced to flee from the angry mob that had overwhelmed security forces. The violence left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; editing by Christian Schmollinger)
