“This is not what the American people want their leaders to work on.” “This appears to be the latest effort by the House Republican majority’s most extreme MAGA members to question and relitigate the outcome of the 2020 election,” White House spokesperson Ian Sams said in a statement Wednesday. The White House criticized congressional Republicans for staging “a bizarre political stunt,” hours after Biden’s State of the Union address where he detailed bipartisan progress in his first two years in office. 6 Capitol riot about Twitter’s preferential treatment of Donald Trump until it banned the then-president from the site two years ago. She testified last year to the House committee that investigated the Jan. The witnesses Republicans subpoenaed were Roth, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s former chief legal officer, and James Baker, the company’s former deputy general counsel.ĭemocrats brought a witness of their own, Anika Collier Navaroli, a former employee with Twitter’s content moderation team. Democrats, meanwhile, have pressed the companies on the spread of hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. The hearing continues a years-long trend of GOP leaders calling tech company leaders to testify about alleged political bias.
READ MORE: Musk’s Twitter changes put ‘rocket boosters’ on climate change misinformation James Comer said the hearing is the panel’s “first step in examining the coordination between the federal government and Big Tech to restrict protected speech and interfere in the democratic process.” The three former executives appeared before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee to testify for the first time about the company’s decision to initially block from Twitter a New York Post article in October 2020 about the contents of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden.Įmboldened by Twitter’s new leadership in billionaire Elon Musk - whom they see as more sympathetic to conservatives than the company’s previous administration - Republicans used the hearing to push a long-standing and unproven theory that social media companies including Twitter are biased against them.Ĭommittee Chairman Rep. He added, “Twitter erred in this case because we wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016.” “It isn’t obvious what the right response is to a suspected, but not confirmed, cyberattack by another government on a presidential election.”
“The decisions here aren’t straightforward, and hindsight is 20/20,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, testified to Congress. WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Twitter executives conceded Wednesday they made a mistake by blocking a story about Hunter Biden, the president’s son, from the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election, but adamantly denied Republican assertions they were pressured by Democrats and law enforcement to suppress the story.
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