Former Twitter executives tell House committee that removal of Hunter Biden laptop story was a 'mistake.'
"America witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies, mainstream news and the intelligence communities to suppress and de-legitimize the existence of Hunter Biden's laptop and its contents," Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in his opening remarks.
Vijaya Gadde, former chief legal officer of Twitter, testifies during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing about Twitter's handling of a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden and his laptop, in Washington, D.C., Feb. 8, 2023."The New York Post chose not to delete its original tweets, so Twitter made an exception after two weeks to retroactively apply the new policy to the Post's tweets," Gadde said.
Republicans accused former Twitter executives of "being terrified" of Joe Biden not winning 2020 election and colluding with the FBI. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who was briefly suspended by Twitter in 2021 for tweeting the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, also accused the former Twitter employees of "colluding with the FBI."
At one point during the hearing, Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., asked former Twitter employee Anika Collier Navaroli about a request made by the Trump White House that Twitter remove a tweet from celebrity Chrissy Teigen that insulted then-President Donald Trump. Hunter Biden walks to a vehicle after disembarking from Air Force One with his father, President Joe Biden, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, Feb. 4, 2023.During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said that Republicans were focusing on a "two-year-old story" about a private company that is allowed to make decisions on what content to allow on its platform.
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