“This seems a violation of the 1st Amendment principles.” Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna.
When Twitter tried to smother distribution of an October 2020 New York Post exposé of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, just weeks before the presidential election, Republicans cried foul.
“I’m for transparency,” Khanna said in an interview Monday evening. “I’ve always been a very robust defender of the First Amendment.”based on files copied from what appeared to be Hunter Biden’s laptop computer that was abandoned at a repair shop. The files were shared with the Post by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani..
Twitter’s then-chief executive, Jack Dorsey, expressed concerns about how the decision was communicated, and within days the company reversed course and allowed the links to the article. Biden went on to win the election. Those tweets revealed a robust internal debate over removing the New York Post exposé, with one Twitter official emailing, “I’m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe,” and another urging they move cautiously with “an emerging situation where the facts remain unclear.”
“I say this as a total Biden partisan and convinced he didn’t do anything wrong,” Khanna went on. “But the story now has become more about censorship than relatively innocuous emails and it’s become a bigger deal than it would have been … In the heat of a Presidential campaign, restricting dissemination of newspaper articles seems like it will invite more backlash than it will do good.
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