U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna D-California seemed to be only Democrat who raised concerns about the ramifications for the environment Twitter’s decisionAccording to communications with social media platform, Hunter Biden said he will censor Hunter Biden’s laptop story in 2020. These communications were made public Friday.
Elon Musk, the Twitter owner, released shocking revelations Friday evening regarding the circumstances that led to the tech giant suppressing the tweets Hunter Biden laptop storyThe final weeks of 2020’s presidential election. Musk shared his findings with Substack journalist Matt Taibbi. He published a lengthy thread detailing what had happened behind-the scenes at Twitter.
Taibbi tweeted Friday night that Khanna was the only Democratic official who could be found in the files and expressed concern about the decision to censor the story.
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Taibbi says Khanna wrote Vijaya Gandde, a Twitter executive, to share his concerns.
Khanna stated in an Oct. 14, 2020 email that there was a “huge backlash against hill re speech.” “I’m open to chatting if you’re interested.”
According to Taibbi’s screenshots, Gadde replied quickly. She also addressed Twitter’s policies in her email.
Khanna replied that he was more concerned about First AmendmentThe New York Post reported on issues relating to the Hunter Biden story.
Khanna wrote that if classified information was hacked or any other information could be used to expose war crimes, the NYT (New York Times), should have the right to publish the information. “Unless they were actively involved in the hack, journalists should not be held responsible for illegal actions taken by the source.”
He added that “to limit the distribution of this material, especially in regard to a Presidential candidate seems not to be in keeping with the principles of NYT v. Sullivan.” He was referring to 1964’s landmark. U.S. Supreme Courtcase that restricts the power of public officials to sue defamation.
Twitter famously banned its users from sharing Hunter Biden’s laptop report by the Post in tweets or direct messages. This was during the heated election of 2020. President BidenTrump was the former President.
At the time, Twitter Safety alleged that the articles were in violation of its “hacked materials policy.” Jack Dorsey was Twitter’s CEO at the time and admitted his company made mistakes. Many critics believe that Big Tech and the media conspired to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was a matter of public record, in order to influence the election for his father.
Khanna wrote that “I say it as a complete Biden partisan, and convinced he didn’t do any wrong.” “But, the story has become more about email censorship than relatively innocent emails and it’s becoming an even bigger deal than it was before.”
He said that in the heat of a Presidential election, restricting the dissemination of newspaper articles (even though the NY Post is far-right) “seems like it will attract more backlash than it will do good.”
He asked Gadde to keep the communication between them and Dorsey private.
Fox News Digital has reached Khanna.
Ro Khanna, U.S. Democratic Rep. expressed concerns about Twitter’s decision censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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Szabo wrote Lauren Culbertson (then-head of Twitter’s public policy) a letter from Carl Szabo of NetChoice to say that his firm met with nine Republican staffers and three Democratic House staffers in order to collect intelligence on Facebook and Twitter, and the Biden story.
Capitol Hill officials referred to Trump’s laptop story as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment”, referring to the audio recording in which he made degrading comments about women.
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In his letter, Szabo said Democrats complained that the social media companies let Republicans “muddy the water and made Biden look corrupt despite him being innocent.” Both agreed that social media should be more vigilant in removing harmful content.
“When I asked them how they might insist on it, consistent with the First Amendment,” they replied, “The First Amendment isn’t absolute.”
Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News contributed to this report.
