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Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« on: February 09, 2023, 03:16:07 am »
Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
The Hill, Feb 8, 2023

Democrats formed a united front Wednesday, painting Republicans as staging a distracting political stunt during the GOP’s first hearing targeting social media companies’ content policies.

Republicans grilled former Twitter executives at a hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee over their decision to limit the spread of a story about President Biden’s son more than two years ago.

The hearing fulfilled a pledge GOP officials made to use their newly reclaimed House majority to crusade against continuing allegations of anti-conservative censorship by social media companies.

The heated hearing, interrupted by a brief power outage in the room, showcased a hyper-partisan divide in the House on content moderation issues.

Republicans pressed the former Twitter employees present on internal communications published through a Twitter thread in December. Democrats sought to highlight concerns about the spread of pro-Trump election misinformation that fueled the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.


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https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3849864-dems-blast-gop-for-waste-of-time-hearing-over-twitter-files/
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2023, 03:17:31 am »
Republicans call the hearing, democrats get the lead.   :shrug:
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2023, 03:19:11 am »
Investigating political corruption is never a waste of time.
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2023, 03:27:43 am »
Luna: "Do you remember communicating on a private cloud server [with government entities] to remove a posting? Yes or no.

Roth: "I don't believe I can give you a yes or no answer."

Luna: "Well I'm gonna tell you right you you did it... It is highly illegal.". (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1623422056749465601
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2023, 04:19:00 am »
"Yoel Roth the former head of safety and integrity at Twitter, just admitted that he had used disappearing messaging systems to communicate with government officials." (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1623379344742653952
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2023, 04:23:59 am »
 pointing-down


"BREAKING: @RepClayHiggins to former Twitter 1.0 Executives: “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 com" (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/alx/status/1623412720199426048




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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2023, 04:29:32 am »
"Former Twitter exec Yoel Roth admits the @nypost’s Hunter Biden’s laptop story didn’t violate any of Twitter’s policies.  Yet Twitter censored the story anyway.  @RepAndyBiggsAZ calls out this election interference.". (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1623352665185951744
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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2023, 04:32:56 am »
"A coordinated cover-up.”  @RepJamesCome lays out the timeline of Twitter suppressing the #HunterBiden laptop story." (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/baldwin_daniel_/status/1623347410725371905
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2023, 04:38:13 am »
"The FBI operated a war room in coordination with Twitter to play out scenarios if Hunter Biden related information came out before the 2020 election. Seems beyond coincidental to drill that scenario just before the @nypost's Biden laptop story was published. 🤔" (Video)
 

https://mobile.twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1623427901612781569
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« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2023, 04:42:22 am »
"The FBI warned Twitter months before the @nypost sstory published to question validity of 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮.
 
@nypos story posts on 10/14/20. Twitter censors it that day.

@RepArmstrongND presses former Twitter execs on Big Tech's coordination with FBI." (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1623411828863664130
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2023, 04:48:22 am »
"WATCH: The House Oversight Committee holds a hearing into how Big Tech censored the Hunter Biden Laptop story - Former Twitter exec says they "made a mistake" in blocking the story. @PeteSessions joins.

"The bottom line to this is, it was hidden until they were caught." (Video)



https://mobile.twitter.com/AmericaRpts/status/1623391225968467990
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2023, 05:39:04 am »
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Not being a conspiracy theorist, but it is strange Twitter went down right after the Twitter dirty four were testifying.

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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2023, 01:25:04 pm »
The biggest reason democrats consider this a "waste of time" is that they already know...
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2023, 03:41:34 pm »
The only people, other than communists, that would consider safeguarding free speech a waste of time, would be democrats. :amen:
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2023, 03:43:40 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on February 09, 2023, 03:41:34 pm
The only people, other than communists, that would consider safeguarding free speech a waste of time, would be democrats. :amen:

You're being redundant...  :whistle:

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« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2023, 03:57:21 pm »
Twitter did NOT get played. They were complicit. Purposefully complicit.
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2023, 03:58:30 pm »
I have heard people say that Twitter has a right to decide who post on their platform and who doesn’t

My reply is not while they’re working in cahoots with the federal government
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2023, 04:22:45 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on February 09, 2023, 03:57:21 pm
Twitter did NOT get played. They were complicit. Purposefully complicit.

Agree.
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Re: Democrats blast GOP for ‘wasting our time’ in hearing over ‘Twitter Files’
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2023, 09:42:10 pm »
Good point ---

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To be effective, Republicans will need to hire a lead counsel to prosecute these hearings and question their witnesses, follow up, cross-examine Dems & their witnesses. Instead of pulling out new facts/revelations from witnesses, Repubs wasting time grandstanding & pontificating
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« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2023, 05:31:44 pm »
Stefanik:. "The FBI paid Twitter over $3.4 million of taxpayer dollars to censor stories – including the Hunter Biden laptop story.  53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020. This is unconstitutional election meddling." (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/RepStefanik/status/1623773115284090880
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