Did Elon Musk see the same hearings everyone else saw?
Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, late Wednesday night murmured(opens in new tab) “Woke Stasi felt the heat today.” Musk’s followers knew what he was talking about. photograph(opens in new tab) The former Twitter executive, whom Musk fired when he bought the company last year, stood before Congress.
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The photo includes Twitter’s former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde and former Trust and Safety Officer Yoel Roth, both of whom have been targeted by conservatives on Twitter and the House Oversight Committee. I am preparing to testify in hearing(opens in new tab) On “Twitter’s Role in Suppressing Biden’s Laptop Stories.” It was the committee’s first major hearing since Republicans took control of the House this year.
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But anyone who saw the hearings in person wouldn’t have noticed the kind of enthusiasm these former Twitter executives were feeling. On the contrary, the hearing uncovered a specific instance in which then-President Donald Trump and his administration asked Twitter to remove a post about Trump by his model Chrissy Tiegen.
While being questioned by a Democratic congressman, former Twitter employee Annika Collier-Navarori contacted the company in 2019 to request the removal of a tweet sent by TV personality Chrissy Tiegen from the Trump administration identified. shared the case of
In September of the same year, Trump murmured(opens in new tab) In an attack on Chrissy Tiegen’s husband, musician John Legend, and Teigen herself, calling her Legend a “filthy-mouthed wife.”
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Later that night, Teigen responded on Twitter, noting that Trump had tagged others he criticized on Twitter, but did not add Teigen’s handle to appear in his Twitter mentions.
“Lol what a cat ass bitch” Teigen Posted(opens in new tab)“Tagged everyone except me. Honor, Mr. President.”
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This revelation also interesting moment(opens in new tab) Here, Navaroli was asked by Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) to read Teigen’s tweets before Congress.
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The whole purpose of this hearing for Republicans was to prove that Twitter colluded with Democrats to curb the spread of Hunter Biden’s laptop story before Musk came along. (an issue that was quickly reversed the day Twitter first blocked the story) and the company subsequently changed its policy to ensure that such instances never happened again). But the lesson learned from the hearing is that then-President Trump actually demanded the removal of “disparaging” tweets about him.
The exchange looks bad for Elon Musk, too. Over the past few months, Musk has provided various right-wing writers with access to an internal document called the Twitter Files. This is to prove that Twitter was prejudiced against the Republican Party prior to his appearance. These releases also tried to show that Twitter is working with the Democrats and the Joe Biden campaign. But so far, no Twitter file release has covered contacts between Twitter and Trump and his administration.
Right-wing bias was further highlighted in Musk’s own Twitter file release, report(opens in new tab) from rolling stone The article, which was released at the hearing, confirmed that Republicans regularly make takedown requests to Twitter for both former Twitter employees and President Trump’s White House officials. According to reports, the requests were so widespread that Twitter had to maintain a database of Republican takedown requests.
As for the Joe Biden campaign’s request to remove tweets related to Hunter Biden, Twitter’s own documentation said the removals were only for posts containing non-consensual nude photos of Biden’s son. rice field.
