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/
Eric SheldonWell, 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.’
The big headline from today's Twitter hearing is not at all what congressional Republicans wanted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/08/house-republicans-twitter-files-collusion/
T.Wllmsimagine that...🤣 ya got margie three toes screaming like a banshee and whining like old break pads... ... Anne Luna-tic... after only 5 seconds that idiot made me instantly turn it off....
of course it was a catastrophe...
Tammy Gentzel@drewharwell I was hoping these hearings would expose the truth. So far, so good.
Jeff@drewharwell we the people demand a refund GQP salaries
Aviva Gary@drewharwell No... I would say not...
Shell Sheddy
Lstn2urmama@drewharwell ...another mis information posed by as seen right there
johne@drewharwell reality has a well known liberal bias.
Ether Diver@drewharwell oh no, did some Republicans fuck around and find out?
Robin from Colorado 🇺🇸🇺🇦@drewharwell Taibbi is burnt
Snitty@drewharwell I had no idea this insults policy existed!
ColetteCT@drewharwell Twitter is in its death throws along with the GOP. The hypocrisy offends most Americans.
Garret 
@drewharwell I mean, if the tweet is just stating facts it’s probably OK to leave up.
Eggcredible@drewharwell “Three insults policy”. Lol. It’s science!
Sacha PrinsIt’s the ‘Goldilocks’ rule: Three insults is just right.
jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷPublicity for twitter.
nice
FreedomThank goodness. As long as only three words of my Old English slurs* are insulting, I don't need to worry about people who know dead languages tripping over it.
Right?
Right??
* I am not nice to bigots. At all.
BoredomFestival@drewharwell to be fair, they should have allowed it under the "substantial truth is an absolute defense to defamation" policy
mudsharkbytes@drewharwell Will people stop infecting my field of vision with images of that nasty trailer trash quisling qunt? I left Twitter because I’m sick of seeing that vile human. I could care less what her or any of her equally vile associates think about jack shit because NONE OF IT will every get me to vote for another Republican again, ever, not after the way they morphed into complete menaces to the free world after 2016.
It won't help in this case, but for most situations:
Triple dot at bottom of left-hand strip on website.
Gear symbol near bottom of left-hand strip.
Triple line menu button at upper right.
Filters option.
I've been having fun with that feature. 🙂
David Brent 📚@drewharwell I believe this is called "The Streisand Effect." 😂
chrisbail@drewharwell America in 2023 is such a weird place to be.
Jim 
@drewharwell Instead of a content warning, mastodon needs a hypocrisy warning on the content. "Contains absurd levels of hypocrisy and double standards. may cause your head to explode"
Negative12DollarBill@drewharwell If it was “pussy-ass bitch”, hyphenated, I’d argue it only counts as two.
FallsMom 🌻@drewharwell Well I had to pop back on twitter to add my like to this! 😆
Half Cocked Law@drewharwell sounds like a pussy ass bitch thing to do.
tomato.eth@drewharwell If she'd hyphenated it as "pussy-ass bitch", would that count as just two insults?
Richard@drewharwell If someone ever asks you to explain what Twitter was, just read this post to them.
PaulAlanLevy
barryzee@drewharwell While I might agree with Teigen's sentiment, what does it say about the state of discourse that 3 insults per tweet is acceptable. How about no insults and honest difference of opinion?
emmatonkinFair remark, but:
a) Honest difference of opinion requires honesty from all involved.
In UK, political honesty being an ongoing issue, we long ago hit the point where many reached for the catharsis of name-calling, although admittedly some go with the Wodehousian style of insult (e.g. 'haunted Victorian pencil').
b) considering the context of her remark, was this particular interaction a difference-of-opinion situation, tbh...?
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a28965451/chrissy-teigen-president-donald-trump-john-legend-twitter-feud-2019/
@emmatonkin I certainly concur that her comment is not necessarily germane to difference of opinion. However, the point is that Twitter has become a hostile place when 3 insults become the standard. I am much less concerned about the interaction between her comment and Donald Trump than I would be if you and I were trading insults regarding the points of view that we both espouse. That conversation is the one that should remain respectful. It's ok to disagree.
@barryzee
Yeah! I would be super concerned if you and I arbitrarily broke into a slanging match. I mean it would be incongruous, even disturbing behaviour. Yet I wouldn't be at all surprised to see such an interaction between politicians, or on Twitter.
Maybe it has to do with the way politics is performed, and how Twitter culture picked up on it. In UK terms, I would call it a pantomime, with audience participation (boo, hiss, etc); just a really nasty one.
Lizard@drewharwell Is "pussy ass bitch" three insults, or one insult that's three words long?
Stu Duerson, machina exo deusThis sort of inclusivity is highly offensive. And I think I speak for all of us pussy-assed bitches.
Do not associate us with the likes of Donald Trump, Ms. Teigen!
gyc@drewharwell lol the Hingle McCringleberry rule.
@drewharwell GQP are anti democracy
Dan Morgan 
@drewharwell TIL: An insult triplet is a protected thing on Twitter. Please use the Oxford comma when appropriate. #grammar
Blob Costas@drewharwell
Trump never misses an opportunity to be a sniveling whiner about any perceived slight (real or imagined). Pussy Ass Bitch is the most scientifically accurate description for him.
Trump never misses an opportunity to be a sniveling whiner about any perceived slight (real or imagined). Pussy Ass Bitch is the most scientifically accurate description for him.