Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., on Wednesday grilled a former Twitter executive over the company's alleged collusion in suppressing the Hunter Biden story before the 2020 election.
The former Twitter executives denied Republican assertions they were pressured by Democrats and law enforcement to suppress the Hunter Biden story.executive to task over the platform’s alleged collusion with federal agencies to block a story about Hunter Biden in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Luna questioned Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former global head of trust and safety, whether he remembered his communication with federal agencies on a private cloud server to remove a posting in the run-up to theRoth equivocated, telling Luna that he disagreed with the "characterization" and could not give a yes or no answer.
The appearance by Roth and other former Twitter executives before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee marked the first testimony about the company's decision to initially block a New York Post article in October 2020 about the contents of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden.
The former Twitter executives conceded that they made a mistake by blocking the story but adamantly denied Republican assertions they were pressured by Democrats and law enforcement to suppress the story.
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