Rep. Higgins Warns Ex-Twitter Execs They Could Go to Jail

Former Twitter executives On Wednesday, House Oversight Committee members received a warning from one representative that they were facing arrests.

The hearing addressed how Twitter blocked the sharing a report. Hunter Biden’s laptop By the New York Post, prior to the 2020 election.

Jack Dorsey, a former CEO of Twitter, said in May 2021: “Blocking the Hunter Biden story is a travesty.” “total mistake.”

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Nevertheless, several members of staff were questioned during the interrogation. House Oversight CommitteeRep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana was also present during Wednesday’s interrogation.

Higgins told Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth, former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, former Twitter deputy counsel James Baker and Anika Collier Navaroli, a former employee at Twitter, that the bottom line was the FBI had the “Biden Crime Family” Laptop for one year, knowing that it was leaking and that this would affect the Biden campaign.

In Washington, D.C., James Baker, ex-deputy general counsel at Twitter Inc., Vijaya Gadde, ex-chief legal officer at Twitter Inc., Yoel Roth, the former global head for trust and safety at Twitter Inc., and Anika Collier Navaroli, a former employee of Twitter Inc., were sworn in at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Wednesday. (Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Higgins accused FBI of using its relationship to Twitter to suppress criminal evidence against Joe Biden one month before the 2020 election.

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“You, ladies and gentlemen, interfered with the United States of America 2020 presidential election, knowingly and willingly,” Higgins claimed. “That’s the bad news, it’s gonna get worse because this is the investigation part. Later comes the arrest part. Your attorneys are familiar with that.”

Higgins’ remarks were rejected by the FBI, who issued a statement in response.

“The FBI does not instruct or direct any social media company to censor an account or remove information from their platform. In carrying out its law enforcement mission, the FBI receives voluntarily provided information from these companies, when the company believes there is a serious risk of death or serious physical injury,” The FBI claimed in a statement obtained from Fox News correspondent David Spunt. 

“In addition, the FBI also shares identified malign foreign influence information with these companies. The information we provide in these circumstances is specific to foreign actors — such as Russia, China, and Iran and their activities, we do not provide information based on content or narratives without attribution to a foreign actor. We may also alert social media companies about intentional attempts to post disinformation about voting times, places, or dates, which may be a federal crime. Private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers in response to information we share.”

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This story was contributed by David Spunt, Fox News.

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