A group of three former executives for the recently purchased social media titan Twitter, which was kicked out by Elon Musk as soon as the deal for the purchase of the company was completed, is expected to go before the House Oversight Committee this coming Wednesday morning in order to testify.
Officials who were managing the massive social media titan reportedly created large blacklists, censored and prevented tweets they did not like from trending, and limited the viewability of entire accounts and trending topics it chose to dislike without telling its user base. Legislators will question the group which consists of former Deputy General Counsel James Baker, former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, and former Global Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth concerning their choices to overtly censor information that may have caused a shift in the outcome of the election from 2020.
“Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor reporting about the Biden family’s shady business schemes,” explained James Comer (R-KY), the Oversight Committee Chairman, in a recent press release. “We also know members of Twitter’s top censorship team debated how they could justify limiting the spread of the story. They landed on a policy that even some among them doubted.”
Comer made reference to a story from The New York Post which was released shortly before the 2020 presidential election and showed that the son of soon-to-be President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, put his father in contact with a Ukrainian businessman.
“Americans deserve answers about this attack on the First Amendment and why Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor this information about the Biden family selling access for profit,” stated Comer. “Accountability is coming.”
The House Oversight Committee, which is known to be the most powerful throughout the lower chamber, was created to “ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and all its agencies.” Comer took over the role previously held by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) as head of the committee after the Republican Party clinched a narrow majority throughout the House.
Baker, who previously held the role of general counsel working with the FBI, insisted to Roth that the materials taken from the unearthed laptop were either hacked or entirely faked, despite the fact that The New York Post had included a receipt from the repair shop that it was taken to which sported the signature of Hunter Biden. There existed “an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community” aimed at “senior executives at news and social media companies” in an effort to discredit “leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published,” explained journalist Michael Shellenberger during the release of the Twitter Files.
Roth had openly balked at a number of other attempts from the FBI to gather data from the Twitter platform, expressing to staffers that the company sported a “long-standing policy” which blocked the use of data for “surveillance and intelligence-gathering purposes.” When the article from The New York Post was made public, Roth sent in an email that the story was not “clearly in violation” of the company’s hacked materials policy or “anything else” but stated that the story seemed “a lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation.”
