Troy Smith
Three former Twitter executives appeared before Congress today to testify in hearings brought to investigate the FBI connection to Twitter surrounding the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 Election.
This hearing took place in the House Judiciary Committee. During the hearings, Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the hearings, calling them a waste of time and resources. See a clip of that from C-SPAN from today’s hearing…
“It’s just an abuse of public resources, an abuse of public time” — AOC on this Twitter/Hunter Biden hearing pic.twitter.com/Dnstz0Pj3S
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023
AOC was also extremely triggered by the Twitter account ‘Libs of Tik Tok’, which she used the hearing to publicly smear. See a clip of that below…
.@AOC is absolutely TRIGGERED by @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/v0Ahedlm9r
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 8, 2023
Biden White House Spokesman Ian Sams claimed in a statement released by the Biden White House that the hearing was a ‘bizarre politiical stunt’. See a portion of that statement below…
“The morning after President Biden delivered a State of the Union Address emphasizing the significant progress we’ve made as a nation to generate historic job and economic growth and the work still to be done to address Americans’ top priorities like tackling inflation, raising wages, and investing in manufacturing and infrastructure jobs, House Republicans are making it their top priority to stage a bizarre political stunt,
Ian Sams, Biden Spokesman
Sams went on to call the hearings a product of ‘extreme MAGA members’ of Congress. See that portion of the statement below…
“This appears to be the latest effort by the House Republican majority’s most extreme MAGA members to question and relitigate the outcome of the 2020 election,”
Ian Sams, Biden Spokesman
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene used the opportunity to criticize Twitter Executives for not working to remove child pornography.
.@RepMTG Calls Out The Former Head Of Trust And Safety At Twitter Yoel Roth For Not Removing Child Porn On Twitter And For Arguing That Minors Should Have Access To Grindr
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) February 8, 2023
“That is repulsive.” pic.twitter.com/qKkY4nI1Id
Greene also called out Twitter Execs for banning her account, which has since been re-instated by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, and the account of former President Donald Trump (which has also been re-instated).
Rep. Nancy Mace also revealed another angle of Twitter censorship.
My friend @Justin_Hart had his important article about @twitter censorship of @DrJBattacharya put into the record by @RepNancyMace during the #TwitterFiles hearings today. pic.twitter.com/7DsIthE1DX
— Jim Pfaff (@jimpfaff) February 8, 2023
