They requested “an accounting of all content moderation decisions” made by Twitter over the last year, and reports on the decision to apply “fact check” notes to posts made by then-President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots and the “autonomous zone in Washington, D.C.”
The letter says Twitter engaged in a “leading role” among big tech companies in establishing political censorship. During the election, Twitter repressed news from a mainstream news outlet (NY Post) hostile to then-candidate Joe Biden’s son and then permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account for no actual reason.
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“Big Tech, especially Twitter, Inc., is engaged in systematic viewpoint-based discrimination. In the unfortunate phenomenon of ‘cancel culture,’ Twitter plays a leading role in silencing and censoring the political speech of conservative Americans,” reads the letter directed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
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“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 States. If Twitter can do this to the President of the United States, it can do it to any American for any reason,” the letter reads.
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“Although Twitter’s lawyers offered a telephonic briefing, Twitter ultimately failed to provide any requested documents to aid our efforts in overseeing the Digital marketplace,” they wrote. “Since then, Twitter’s conduct has only become more brazen.” Jordan and Buck went on to request an accounting of “all content moderation decisions made by Twitter” over the past year for “users located within the United States,” including which Twitter rule or policy “the user allegedly violated and the content of the moderated tweet.”
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The letter also states that Twitter evaded providing documents petitioned in July last year by then-Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Jordan and then-Ranking Member Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) about the “examination of the size, competitiveness, and role of social media companies.”
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They gave the social media platform a deadline of 5:00 p.m. on March 18.
The letter was also cc’d to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D.Y.).
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In November of last year, several Twitter posts by Trump concerning the election results and vote-counting irregularities were removed by Twitter and Facebook.
Since Nov. 5 of last year, over a dozen posts or re-posts by Trump were censored by Twitter. Some of the posts were covered with tags that read: “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”
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