In contrast, there was evidence presented that Trump tried to influence Twitter, and that Twitter bent over backwards to accommodate him.ĭonald Trump, while president, contacted Twitter to try to get them to remove a tweet in which model and TV personality Chrissy Teigan called him a ““p**** a** b****,”” on the grounds that the Tweet was derogatory. It’s important to note that Joe Biden was not president at the time of Twitter’s decision, and Twitter executives say they were not contacted by Biden’s campaign about the matter. They emphasized that it was difficult to distinguish disinformation from legitimate but contentious reporting in the run-up to an election. Twitter lifted the link ban to the Hunter Biden story after 24 hours, and in retrospect executives said the block was a mistake. It turned out the DNC was hacked by Russia as part of an effort to throw the election to Donald Trump. Twitter initially believed the story was disinformation, similar to 2016 stories about leaks from the DNC. The Republican-controlled House Oversight and Accountability Committee launched its hearings to investigate whether Twitter inappropriately suppressed links to a story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020. When Republicans claim to be fighting censorship, they are in fact attempting to use government power to intimidate and control the press.
More sweepingly, Ocasio-Cortez’s questions showed how the right uses free speech absolutism to stifle free expression. Instead, Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a series of pointed questions, showed that Twitter had literally changed its terms of service in order to avoid deleting a racist tweet by Donald Trump. Conservatives held hearings this week intended to show that Twitter was biased against conservatives.
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