Republicans held a hearing to prove Twitter's bias against them. It backfired in spectacular fashion
Right-wing media outlets and personalities are happy to amplify these claims and spread them to millions of viewers who turn to them for their news. Fox News, for instance, hyped the GOP claims from the hearing on Wednesday, portraying the nonsense coming out of the hearing as if it were a serious affair uncovering considerable wrongdoing.
The facts — reality — simply do not matter. It didn't move one Republican when the Twitter executives they had subpoenaed before the committee refuted their claims. And it didn't matter much to the right-wing media apparatus that blindly repeated them to their audiences.
Republicans have distorted this Twitter story to the point of getting it backward. Twitter has a "public interest policy" that keeps it from banning accounts of certain important people. That policy was applied to accounts like Trump's secretly and unofficially until 2019. Trump retweeted at least 145 conspiracy accounts, including more than two dozen that were themselves later suspended for their rule breaking posts. In one egregious example, Trump tweeted "when the looting starts, the shooting starts", which broke Twitter's rules against glorifying violence. Literally no one other than Trump was getting away with the things he was posting on Twitter.
This hearing showed even more examples of this anti-Democratic bias by Twitter. Apparently, they relaxed their rules on hate speech to accommodate Trump using Twitter to tell certain minority members of Congress to go back to where they came from. The Trump White House also asked Twitter to ban Chrissy Teigen. This isn't looking great for the Republican victim complex.
Twitter Kept Entire ‘Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts
WHEN THE WHITE House called up Twitter in the early morning hours of September 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called President Donald Trump “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — and the White House wanted the tweet to come down.
That exchange — revealed during Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter by Rep. Gerry Connolly — and others like it are nowhere to be found in Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” releases, which have focused almost exclusively on requests from Democrats and the feds to the social media company. The newly empowered Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now devoting significant resources and time to investigating this supposed “collusion” between liberal politicians and Twitter. Some Republicans even believe the release of the “Twitter Files” is the “tip of the spear” of their crusade against the alleged liberal bias of Big Tech.
Strange how selectively Tiabbi keeps suppressing information that doesn't fit what he's selling.
A reminder that the data show that Twitter's algorithm amplifies conservative views over others.
Ex-Twitter Officials Confirm to Congress: Trump, Not Biden, Has Tried to Censor Tweets
Spurred on by the so-called “Twitter Files,” the House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter’s decision to temporarily block a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was supposed to show overwhelming proof that the social media giant was engaged in anti-conservative “censorship.”
Instead, former Twitter officials revealed on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump not only received preferential treatment for years, but he also directly requested the site remove tweets that he didn’t like. At the same time, they also noted that President Joe Biden hadn’t contacted Twitter to take down any tweets or censor content.
One needn’t be an expert in psychology to understand that Donald Trump has some of the thinnest skin known to man. A prime example of this would be his apparent decision to run for president because Seth Meyers made fun of him. Another? His administration’s reaction to a celebrity calling him a “pussy ass bitch” on Twitter.
The irony that Trump's attempt to censor the tweet only reinforce the tweet's accuracy
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