Ex-Twitter Officials Confirm to Congress: Trump, Not Biden, Has Tried to Censor Tweets

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Ex-Twitter Officials Confirm to Congress: Trump, Not Biden, Has Tried to Censor Tweets

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Ex-Twitter Officials Confirm to Congress: Trump, Not Biden, Has Tried to Censor Tweets
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-twitter-officials-confirm-to-congress-that-trump-not-biden-tried-to-censor-tweets





‘P*SSY A** B*TCH’

After one Twitter whistleblower said Trump once tried to get a Chrissy Teigen tweet deleted, other ex-execs noted that Biden has never asked for content removal.

Updated Feb. 08, 2023 3:59PM ET / Published Feb. 08, 2023 1:55PM ET

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Spurred on by the so-called “Twitter Files,” the House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter’s decision to temporarily block a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was supposed to show overwhelming proof that the social media giant was engaged in anti-conservative “censorship.”

Instead, former Twitter officials revealed on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump not only received preferential treatment for years, but he also directly requested the site remove tweets that he didn’t like. At the same time, they also noted that President Joe Biden hadn’t contacted Twitter to take down any tweets or censor content.


One tweet Trump especially wanted to be deleted: Supermodel and TV star Chrissy Teigen calling him a “pussy ass bitch” in 2019.

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Former Twitter executives Yoel Roth, James Baker, and Vijaya Gadde, along with ex-Twitter official turned whistleblower Anika Collier Navaroli, were brought on to testify about the FBI’s possible role in suppressing the laptop story. And though they once again conceded it was a “mistake” to briefly block the article over misinformation concerns, they also denied the feds had any role in that decision.
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Roth told Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) that the FBI sending over review requests of certain content may not have been a valuable use of the bureau’s resources and time, but it still didn’t represent any First Amendment violations. And even though Jordan disagreed, he also acknowledged that Twitter “isn’t bound by the First Amendment” because it’s a private company.

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