Key takeaways:
- House Oversight Committee held a hearing to discuss the issue of political censorship on social media, with former Twitter executives testifying.
- During the hearing, Republican Congressman Byron Donalds displayed web addresses for nude photos of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as part of his questioning.
- The incident has raised questions about the appropriateness of displaying such content in a congressional hearing, and whether the Republican lawmakers involved were attempting to mislead the public.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing to discuss the issue of political censorship on social media, with former Twitter executives testifying. During the hearing, Republican Congressman Byron Donalds displayed web addresses for nude photos of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as part of his questioning.
The photos were removed from Twitter after the Biden campaign flagged them to the company, according to the “Twitter Files,” a project by new Twitter owner Elon Musk to release internal company documents to select journalists.
The hearing was part of Republicans’ efforts to use their new House majority to push a factually unsupported narrative about the federal government secretly colluding with Twitter to censor the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.
The incident has raised questions about the appropriateness of displaying such content in a congressional hearing, and whether the Republican lawmakers involved were attempting to mislead the public.
The hearing was part of a larger debate over links to nude photos of Hunter Biden, which is now part of the congressional record. It remains to be seen how the incident will affect the ongoing discussion about political censorship on social media.
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