Watch: Former Twitter executives testify before the House Oversight Committee

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Three erstwhile Twitter executives are acceptable to attest earlier the House Oversight Committee connected Wednesday opening astatine 10 a.m. ET.

The hearing, titled “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role successful Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story,” is an aboriginal amusement of however recently empowered Republicans successful the House volition wield their power connected tech issues. Many Republicans person agelong complained of what they spot arsenic bias toward conservatives successful the contented moderation policies of online platforms, which tech companies person consistently denied.

Still, Twitter's caller proprietor Elon Musk, who clashed with the erstwhile executives testifying, has promised to restore escaped speech to the platform. Even so, immoderate of his actions, similar suspending immoderate journalists' accounts and a illustration tracking his jet, person shown Musk excessively has lines successful the soil connected escaped speech.

Wednesday's proceeding features Twitter's erstwhile main ineligible serviceman Vijaya Gadde, erstwhile lawman wide counsel James Baker, erstwhile Twitter argumentation authoritative Annika Collier Navaroli and erstwhile planetary caput of spot and information Yoel Roth.

The communicative the hearing's rubric refers to is simply a 2020 New York Post nonfiction that claimed to find a "smoking gun" email related to President Joe Biden and his lad Hunter. The nonfiction was published soon earlier Biden's 2020 predetermination to the highest office, which further inflamed tensions erstwhile Twitter and Facebook decided to bounds the organisation of the article. Twitter took the utmost measurement of blocking links to the story, citing its hacked materials policy. Twitter's then-CEO said the company's attack was incorrect and changed the policy, but galore lawmakers' spot was already broken.

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