WASHINGTON - Former Twitter executives told a Republican-led US House committee on Wednesday that they made a mistake by blocking tweets about a laptop said to belong to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter but said government officials were not involved. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Former Twitter executives told a Republican-led US House committee on Wednesday that they made a mistake bysaid to belong to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter but said government officials were not involved.
Democrats accused Republicans of pursuing a politically motivated fishing expedition against Biden and raised concerns about witness intimidation after a Republican lawmaker warned the former executives that they would be held accountable for activities she deemed “highly illegal.” “America witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies, mainstream news and the intelligence community to suppress and de-legitimise the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop and its contents,” committee chairman James Comer said at the outset of the proceedings.
He said Twitter was trying to avoid the kind of interference that occurred in 2016, when Russian officials allegedly hacked Democratic National Committee computers and disseminated material through social media.
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