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'Later comes the arrest part': GOP congressman threatens former Twitter execs with ominous rant at hearing
February 08, 2023
During a House Oversight Committee hearing this Wednesday over Twitter's content moderation policies, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) accused a panel of former Twitter executives of allowing the FBI to help Joe Biden by suppressing "criminal evidence being revealed" via a story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Higgins accused the panel of allowing the FBI to suppress the story one month before the 2020 election.
"You people interfered with the United States of America's 2020 presidential election, knowingly and willingly," Higgins said.
"That's the bad news, it's gonna get worse," he warned. "Because this is the investigation part. Later comes the arrest part."
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"Your attorneys are familiar with that," he told the panel.
The panel told the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that Twitter blocked links to an October 2020 New York Post story because it looked similar to leaks from hacked Democratic computers before the 2016 election. The executives admitted that suppressing the story was a mistake.
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Conservative freakout has made social media companies scared to enforce rules against violence: House witness
February 08, 2023
During a House hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) pointed out that social media accounts are actually giving conservatives an edge on their platforms because there has been such an uprising.
She noted that the hearing "would be funny if it weren't real life. I understand my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to be victims so very badly but if I understand correctly, public criticism and allegations of anti-conservative bias are actually making Twitter and other social media companies less willing to enforce their own policies against political conservatives; correct?"
Former Twitter whistleblower Anika Collier Navaroli agreed that it was her understanding based on the research done at Twitter while she was there.
"Meaning the same Republicans insisting on making themselves a victim is working?" asked Lee.
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"Could you repeat the question?" asked Ms. Navaroli.
"The same Republicans, folks on the stand who insist on making themselves victims in the conversation about Twitter's censorship and accusations they've made is this working because of the conservative bias and the implications of it," Lee asked.
"In other words," Lee continued," Are the allegations of conservative bias making it harder for those in Twitter to enforce these policies who incite hate speech."
"Thank you for repeating that question and asking it," said Navaroli. "Yes, these allegations very much have an impact on the leadership within every social media company as they hope to not receive allegations of being biased in anyway being politically one-sided."
Navaroli explained that a lot of the comments that Twitter focused on were things like "I will," "I plan," "I'm going to," I want to," and others. Phrases like "stand back and stand by," or "I'm locked and loaded and ready to go," were not covered under their policy, which is why there were problems.
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Republican rants ​there’s a Chinese conspiracy behind the Democratic support of solar panels
February 08, 2023
WASHINGTON — Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) just found out that Democrats support green energy, but he believes it's all really about Hunter Biden.
According to the Republican lawmaker, the hearing with Twitter executives answered a lot of questions about Hunter Biden's business deals.
"One of the major social media companies was being influenced by the FBI," Donalds ranted. The idea comes from a misconstruing of the facts outlined in the so-called "Twitter Files." They're a set of selected documents and emails that justify conspiracy theories about corporations being too "woke."
When asked if the hearing was about Twitter or more about Hunter Biden, Donalds said that that it's clear that the younger Biden had an ability to inject his influence around the globe. The question for us is are his business dealings setting the agenda for the Biden administration both domestically and internationally?"
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Donalds' evidence was from a New York Times report talking about the sale of a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mine was 70 percent owned by Chinese investors and the company that Hunter Biden was working for at the time facilitated the sale of the remaining 30 percent to other Chinese investors for $3.8 billion. Somehow, that story has been twisted into a conspiracy that the Biden family pocketed the $3.8 billion, which is false.
"Joe Biden has been pressing solar panels and battery technology very strongly," Donalds said, explaining that this proves Hunter Biden is driving the policy. "It was in the inflation reduction act, which did nothing for inflation and was really just the Green New Deal wrapped in the title."
Donalds said that Hunter Biden facilitated that sale "three or four years ago and now Joe Biden, who I didn't think knew anything about energy, frankly, is all gungho on solar panels and batteries? Why? And so, that's a direct correlation right there!"
One of the many speeches Biden made during the 2020 campaign was about his goal of being 100 percent clean electricity by 2035.
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Democrats have supported solar technology since President Jimmy Carter worked to get solar panels added to the roof of the White House around the time Donalds was born and 30-plus years before the cobalt mine deal. Carter has never been tied to Hunter Biden's cobalt mine deal.
Among the initiatives, Republicans attacked former President Barack Obama for was his investment in solar technologies early on in his presidency because one of the startup companies supported went bankrupt after a $500 million investment from the government. Biden was the one who announced the investment in solar in 2009. It was four years before the sale of the cobalt mine.
"This announcement today is part of the unprecedented investment this Administration is making in renewable energy and exactly what the Recovery Act is all about," said then-Vice President Biden. "By investing in the infrastructure and technology of the future, we are not only creating jobs today, but laying the foundation for long-term growth in the 21st-century economy."
In May 2014, the White House decided to put the solar panel's back up on the roof. They made a video about the installation with the Secretary of Energy talking about the clean energy of the future. At no point have Republicans argued that Obama was being influenced by Hunter Biden's cobalt mine deal.
Obama pushed another investment in 2016 as jobs in solar had increased "12 times faster than the rest of the economy."
During the 2020 campaign, Biden toured the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire while discussing green energy.
Donalds went on to rant to Raw Story about the government influencing Twitter, claiming that it could reach all the way to the CIA.
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