Former Twitter Execs Squirm — They Could Be Arrested For Election Interference
Steve Watson
Former Twitter executives looked at times uncomfortable, but betrayed their staunch anti-free speech biases during a House Oversight Committee heading on Wednesday.
The hearing was called to investigate the role government played, specifically the FBI, with regards to censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop report by the New York Post.
Former Twitter Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, Former Deputy General Counsel James Baker, and Former Global Head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth were grilled by Representatives, with Congressman Clay Higgins telling them they could be arrested for interfering with the 2020 presidential election.
“The bottom line is that the FBI had the Biden Crime Family laptop for a year. They knew it was leaking. They knew it would hurt the Biden family. So the FBI used its relationship with Twitter to suppress criminal evidence from being revealed about Joe Biden one month before the 2020 election,” Higgins asserted.
“You, ladies and gentlemen interfered with the United States of America 2020 presidential election! Knowingly and willingly!” he continued, adding “That’s the bad news! It’s gonna get worse! Because this is the investigation part! Later comes the arrest part, your attorneys are familiar with that.”
“I’d like to spend five hours with these ladies and gentlemen doing depositions surely yet to come,” the Congressman added.
Here comes the BOOMS!@RepClayHiggins warns the Twitter employees that their depositions and arrests will soon be waiting for them. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/XQpbEubpk7
— Woke Societies (@wokesocieties) February 8, 2023
Elsewhere during the hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace blasted the former executives for also, as highlighted by the Elon Musk’s release of The Twitter Files, working to suppress information regarding COVID.
“I along with many Americans have long term effects from COVID. Not only was I a long-hauler, but I have effects from the vaccine,” Mae declared.
She continued, “It wasn’t the first shot but it was the second shot. I have now developed asthma that has never gone away since I had the second shot. I have tremors in my left hand. And I have the occasional heart pains that no doctor can explain. And I’ve had a battery of tests.”
“I find it extremely alarming Twitter’s suppression spread into medical fields,” Mace told the former execs.
“You’re not a doctor, right?” Mace directly asked Gadde, adding “What makes you think you or anyone else at Twitter have the medical expertise to censor actual, accurate CDC data?”
Gadded pathetically claimed she was not familiar with these particular situations.”
“Yeah, I’m sure you’re not,” Mace shot back.
Twitter censored doctors from Stanford and Harvard for sharing truthful information about COVID-19.@RepNancyMace calls out former Twitter employees for larping as medical experts and silencing views that don’t fit with the mainstream narrative. pic.twitter.com/AK0J35ha0O
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 8, 2023
Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan told them they “got played by the FBI” over the Hunter Biden laptop, forcing Roth to admit that the New York Post report didn’t violate any Twitter policies in his opinion, but was censored anyway.
“This to me is the real takeaway,” Jordan said, going on to state “51 former intelligence officials, five days after you guys take down the Hunter Biden story and block the New York Post’s account, five days later, 51 former intel officials send a letter and they say, ‘the Hunter Biden story has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.’ The information operation was run on you guys, and then by extension then run on the American people. And that’s the concern.”
Twitter got played by the FBI. pic.twitter.com/78O2fbzWK9
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 8, 2023
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert asked the former Twitter executives “Who the hell do you think you are?” for shadow banning people they disagree with on the platform.
Boebert also asked the execs if they had shadow banned her own account.
“I can reach out to Elon and to his staff, and I can see what’s happened ,and I can sit here today and hold you all in account,” Boebert concluded, adding “I am angry for the millions of Americans who were silenced because of your decisions, because of your actions, because of your collusion with the federal government. They can’t reach out to Elon. They can’t sit here today and hold you in account.”
The chair of the Committee, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky highlighted Tweets made by Roth in the past calling Republicans ‘Nazis’.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told Roth “You permanently banned my Twitter account but you allowed child porn all over Twitter.”
.@RepMTG to Yoel Roth: “You permanently banned my Twitter account but you allowed child porn all over Twitter.” pic.twitter.com/kshgUbXD8x
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 8, 2023
The former execs mostly either claimed ignorance and denied any wrong doing.
James Baker said he can’t recall speaking with the FBI while working at Twitter, and denied that he acted unlawfully:
FBI’s informant James Baker just lied under oath. #TwitterFilesHearing pic.twitter.com/Ek0oIf03Dc
— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) February 8, 2023
Twitter’s Former Deputy Counsel James Baker: “I was not aware of and certainly did not engage in any conspiracy or other effort to do anything unethical, improper or unlawful while I was at Twitter. Period. I did not act unlawfully…with respect to Hunter Biden’s laptop.” pic.twitter.com/IeEHgX2Bhy
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 8, 2023
Meanwhile, Roth attempted to argue that censorship on Twitter under his watch helped to create more freedom of speech.
Roth also admitted that he finds it “regrettable” that the conservative account LibsOfTikTok is still allowed to be active on Twitter:
AOC says that @libsoftiktok lied about Boston Children’s Hospital giving hysterectomys to children.
AOC: “That account is still on the platform isn’t it?”
Roth: “Regrettably, yes it is” pic.twitter.com/o64LZpO55o
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 8, 2023
AOC says that @libsoftiktok lied about Boston Children’s Hospital giving hysterectomys to children.
AOC: “That account is still on the platform isn’t it?”
Roth: “Regrettably, yes it is” pic.twitter.com/o64LZpO55o
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 8, 2023
You mean to tell me this guy is mad that I’m still on Twitter? What a compliment! https://t.co/Fp9ukUxQaW pic.twitter.com/ov7UmH7ODT
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 8, 2023
The great irony here is that @AOC is lying. Libs of TikTok has simply reported the facts about what these hospitals have said about their own services. It’s all documented. But this is what they do — they use misinformation to smear you as being a source of it. https://t.co/b5rRlIrFDz
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) February 8, 2023
Going forward, Twitter will be broadly accepting of different values, rather than trying to impose its own specific values on the world
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2023
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