The House Oversight Committee has summoned former Twitter executives to testify at a hearing in early February regarding the platform’s decision to censor the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” story.
by Musk in December for allegedly obstructing his efforts to publish what has become known as the “Twitter Files” — internal documents and emails revealing the inner workings of the platform’s censorship decisions.
The Twitter Files have revealed close coordination between Twitter and the FBI, and other elements of the U.S. security state. The files revealed that Yoel Roth was meeting with the FBI and other U.S. security agenciesThe files also revealed that most Democrats, with the exception of Rep. Ro Khanna , believed the platform had not gone far enough in its censorship.
An email from Carl Szabo, one of the tech industry’s top lobbyists in D.C., told Twitter that Democrat lawmakers he spoke to in the aftermath of the Hunter Biden story suppression expressed their belief that “social media needs to moderate more,” and complained that the story had been allowed to travel as far as it did.
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