Congressional Republicans’ attempt to prove that Twitter was working with Democrats to conspire against conservatives just blew up in their faces in a spectacular way.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday revealed that Twitter had actually changed its abusive content rules to avoid punishing Trump when he tweeted that she should “go back” to where she came from.
“There are many other examples of this, but this is one that happened to come out in the hearing of Twitter absolutely bending over backwards to help conservatives, which is like the exact opposite of what the hearing and tons of people keep insisting,” he said. “How would the Republicans feel if the Democrats did the same thing and called Fox News executives into a hearing and demanded to know their editorial process and who did they put on the air and who did they refuse to put on the air? And how do they decide what their lead stories are? Like, everyone would see that as a very clear First Amendment problem because it’s Congress interfering with, you know, the First Amendment editorial process of a private company and yet that’s what happened with...
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