House Republicans Request Documents From Twitter on Trump Censorship Policies
Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) made a renewed request to Twitter for documents related to the social media platform’s internal moderation policies.
They asked for “an accounting of all content moderation decisions” made by Twitter over the past year, and documentation on the decision to apply “fact check” notations to posts made by President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots and the “autonomous zone in Washington, D.C.”
The letter from the congressmen addressed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (pdf) says the platform played a “leading role” among Big Tech companies in enacting political censorship. During the election, Twitter suppressed news from a mainstream news outlet (New York Post) unfavorable to then-candidate Joe Biden’s son and then banned Trump’s account.
By Craig Bannister | March 4, 2021 | 2:38pm EST
Rep. Jim Jordan
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“Twitter plays a leading role in silencing and censoring political speech of conservative Americans,” House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) tells Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a letter sent Thursday.
The letter, co-signed by fellow committee member Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), says that Twitter’s censorship of then-President Donald Trump should be a warning to all Americans:
“Big Tech, especially Twitter, Inc., is engaged in systemic viewpoint-based discrimination. In the unfortunate phenomenon of “cancel culture,” Twitter plays a leading role in silencing and censoring political speech of conservative Americans. In recent months, Twitter throttled the dissemination of a mainstream newspaper article critical of then-candidate Joe Biden’s son and later took the unprecedented step of de-platforming the sitting President of the United State