Former Twitter Execs Tell Congress: We Didn’t Meddle In 2020 Election And Also We Need To Do It More

The House Oversight Committee faced several ex-Twitter executives Wednesday to discuss their censorship activism. Election meddling — specifically the Big Tech company’s suppression of the New York Post’s legitimate reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Twitter led Big Tech companies and corporate media in throttling the news of the Biden family’s deep corruption mere weeks before the 2020 presidential election. As the latest release of the “Twitter Files” Further, Elon Musk was exposed to have been motivated by Not Twitter policy, but partisanship.

At the beginning of Wednesday’s hearing, Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the Committee, stated that the oversight questioning was to expose the relationship between Big Tech companies such as Twitter and corrupt, partisan federal agents like the FBI. This agency tried to thwart scrutiny of the Biden family business in advance of the 2020 election.

“Twitter’s employees made censorship decisions on the fly, often not following the company’s own policy — publicly stated policies. It worked hand-in-hand with the FBI to monitor the protected speech of Americans receiving millions of tax dollars to do so,” Comer stated. “Twitter, under the leadership of our witnesses today, was a private company the federal government used to accomplish what it constitutionally cannot — limit the free exercise of speech.”

Some Democrats tried to pivot the hearing away from its purpose by inviting surprise witness Anika Navaroli, a member of Twitter’s censorship team who was hailed as a hero after she helped the weaponized Jan. 6 Committee advance its Anti-free speech agenda, to testify about Twitter’s need for more censorship.

Others, like Maxwell Frost, a recently elected Democrat Representative, suggested the hearing might have been the result of GOP. Infuriation Information about the 2020 presidential elections results. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez said that the hearing was a waste because it focused on one piece of information. “disinformation.”

The witnesses, former Deputy General Counsel of Twitter James Baker (who also used to serve as lead counsel for the FBI), former Chief Legal Officer of Twitter Vijaya Gadde (who was fired by Elon Musk shortly after he bought the company), and former Global Head of Trust & Safety of Twitter Yoel Roth, were all deeply involved in the decision to stop the story’s spread.

They may be former employees and they were under oath, but that didn’t stop Baker or any of the others from lying about the role they played in controlling dialogue in the public square.

Are you making a mistake or following a calculated strategy?

Right off the bat, Gadde and Roth both repeatedly stated that hindsight indicated the suppression of the New York Post’s legitimate reporting was a “mistake,” Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, also stated this in 2021.

Republicans weren’t buying it.

“There are mistakes that have been made and we keep looking back at these mistakes and say ‘oh that shouldn’t have happened that way. We are going to have a new policy to avoid that from happening again.’ But every mistake benefits one side,” Republican

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