Wed Feb 8, 2023 – 6:39 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Former Twitter executives denied intentional wrongdoing Tuesday in their decisions relating to the story about presidential son Hunter Biden’s laptop amid several hours of largely circular questioning by the U.S. House Oversight Committee.
The hearing brought in former Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, former deputy general counsel James Baker, former global head of trust & safety Yoel Roth, and former safety policy team senior member Annika Collier Navaroli to testify about the platform’s decision in October 2020 to censor a bombshell New York Post report about a computer Hunter had abandoned at a Delaware repair shop, containing scores of emails and texts detailing how the Biden family enriched itself through Hunter arranging meetings between his father, formerly the vice president of the United States, and business interests around the world.
The story has long since been vindicated (most recently by the younger Biden’s own attorney admitting the laptop was authentic), but at the time there was a concerted effort to discredit it as “Russian disinformation,” including Twitter censoring the Post’s original story under the claim it violated the platform’s “hacked materials” policy.
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