Congressional leaders have announced the first hearings and investigation into a joint effort between the FBI and the social media company Twitter to censor and suppress news damaging to Joe Biden, in what appeared to many to be an attempt to influence the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The first hearing will feature live questioning of three top Twitter figures
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) will hold a Feb. 8 full committee hearing titled “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story.”
In the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, with President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in a virtual tie, a laptop computer belong to Biden’s adult son Hunter was discovered abandoned in a Delaware computer repair shop.
The Biden laptop contained numerous emails, photographs and documents detailing drug use, use of prostitutes and questionable business deals by Hunter Biden. One of those business deals, with Communist Chinese interests, appears to have included cash to Joe Biden.
The New York Post and other outlets reported on the contents, leading to a scramble by liberal interests and a team of FBI agents to suppress the story, by blocking and censoring its sharing on social media platforms.
“In the runup to the 2020 presidential election, Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor reporting about the Biden family’s shady business schemes,” said Comer.
“The U.S. intelligence community and the FBI frequently communicated with Big Tech and advised Twitter executives to question the validity of any Hunter Biden story—before the New York Post ever reported on it. 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,” said Comer.
“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. Accountability is coming,” said Comer.
Members of Congress will publicly question “three former Twitter employees (former Chief Legal Officer of Twitter Vijaya Gadde, former Deputy General Counsel of Twitter James Baker and former Global Head of Trust & Safety of Twitter Yoel Roth) who censored the New York Post’s reporting on the Biden family’s business schemes based on information obtained from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop,” Committee Republicans announced.
