accepting some responsibility themselves for some not being truthful to the american public. now, there s no doubt that many so-called journalists arey now downplaying musker revelations becausso-cal e they were, in fact, complicit in twatt inta twitter censorship efforts. censorshin 2020 short, shortly r twitter blocked any and all hune sharing of the hunter bidenbiden laptop report from the new york post, npr proudly announcedd that it would not be covering hunter s laptop from because, quote, we don t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories and we don t want to waste the listeners storiand readers time on storio that are just pure distractions. arnow, countless other, quote, journalists, they falsely referu to the story as russian disinformation or hacked material. sinforma or hacknow, this gave s to twitter, which was blocking the report without anyccording legitimate reason. according to newly released internal documents, twitterock o blocked one hunter bid
but the biden administration has flip-flopped whether or not they were involved. jen psaki admitted to routine engagement with twitter but karine jean-pierre putting distance between the white house and the tech giant. we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team. we were not involved, i can say that, we were not involved. sometimes censorship efforts came from inside twitter. former deputy general counsel james baker seen in the company email asking a trump tweet telling people not to be afraid of covid had not been taken down. while telling people not to be afraid was not a violation of the misinformation policy. twitter s former chief of trust and safety replied to baker that optimism was not misinformation. rich. hillary, thank you.
true u.s. government policy by discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed by suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the cdc s own data. now zweig points out that there were meetings between both trump and biden administrations about the covid debate. but there was. morgan: trump stuff focused on misinformation that dealt with things like stories of grocery stores. you know, runs on grocery stores whereas when the biden administration came, in the censorship efforts focused more on the anti-vaxxers. rachel: right. exactly. i would probably be put in that deargt because i requests very covid vaccine questioning. apparently that was not allowed in our country. think how serious this is. we had a major health epidemic. a pandemic. they lied to us about and people censored who talked about the origins of where this came from. so all the way from the origins down to, you know, whether you agreed with lockdowns or not or
can t be allowed to get away with it. he says it s clear any such reforms should include a full investigation of the fbi and its involvement in censorship efforts. as many as 80 agents were committed to this efforts. it s clear now if we are to end censorship by surrogate, the house will have to probe and push everywhere in the fbi for answers. so is that what you are committed to doing, sir? and what is that going to look like? first of all, good to be with you. merry christmas to everybody. i am committed to that and i think the oversight committee, house republicans are committed to that as well. what we ve seen through the twitter files and let me also say this, if it happened at twitter, it probably also happened at facebook and at google and probably with the large media outlets. if this what has been happening, you have elements of the government that have been suppressing free speech. my last reading of the first amendment is that the government will not do anything to a brid
represents here, okay, and what elon is trying to do. there is some overlap. i think this is an unforced error by musk. the reason he is showing the light of day to these internal censorship efforts was to prove how corrupt the previous regime was. he is inserting himself into the debate by taking a political position. i don t know that this was the right move but i find it really funny and after the weekend i had in oklahoma city i m glad no one is calling to prosecute me. that s it. bill: statute of limitations hasn t expired yet. thanks for nothing. bill: sheriff knocking on the door. dana: you re never going back to oklahoma. no time soon. bill: sam bankman-fried, sbf set to testify in a house hearing tomorrow as the feds weigh possible fraud charges after the giant crypto collapse. an american disappears while