Drew HarwellOne day after the president urged Congress to work on actual tech issues, like data privacy and antitrust, congressional Republicans are staging a theatrical ad-nauseum hearing over a three-year-old Twitter mistake
Twitter whistleblower Anika Collier Navaroli testifying now: "If we do nothing, violence is going to happen again." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fo_yD8r3w4
Her first interview last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/jan6-committee-twitter-witness-navaroli/
Full Committee Hearing - Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story
Learn more at https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/
AOC: We're having "a whole hearing about a 24-hour hiccup in a right-wing political operation. ... We could be talking about health care ... abortion rights, civil rights, voting rights, but instead we're talking about Hunter Biden's" laptop.
Marjorie Taylor Greene uses her entire congressional time to complain that Twitter banned her (under its five-strike policy) when all she did was repeatedly say the covid vaccine was a failure and that you'd only get hurt from covid if you were over 65 or obese
Full Committee Hearing - Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story
Learn more at https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/
Well, that's new: The Trump White House asked Twitter to remove a Chrissy Teigen tweet calling Trump a "pussy ass bitch." Twitter allowed it under its 'insults' policy, which allows three insults per tweet. It now has 100,000 retweets and 680,000 ‘likes.’
Snitty@drewharwell I had no idea this insults policy existed!