Former Twitter executives told a Republican-led U.S. House committee on Wednesday that they made a mistake by blocking tweets about a laptop said to belong to President Joe Biden's son Hunter but said government officials were not involved.
Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, testified that the team responsible for enforcing rules on content was separate from Twitter personnel involved in government relations.
The Twitter executives also said company policy sought to mitigate content that could lead to political violence, such as what later occurred in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters. Democrats raised concerns about witness intimidation after Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna presented what she called proof that Twitter and the federal government had acted jointly to censor Americans.
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