OPINION: Indict Jack Dorsey? Former Twitter CEO's potential legal liability after congressional testimony
"Twitter’s shadow-banning prominent Republicans… is that true?" Doyle asked.Dorsey was also asked about my prior testimony on private censorship in circumventing the First Amendment as a type of censorship by surrogate. Dorsey and the other CEOs were asked about my warning of a"‘little brother’ problem, a problem which private entities do for the government that which it cannot legally do for itself.
Notably, others at the company made similar denials as Dorsey but may not have done so under oath. In 2018, Gadde and head of product Kayvon Beykpour expressly declared,"We do not shadow-ban. And we certainly don't shadow-ban based on political viewpoints or ideology."Even if untrue, lying in public is generally not a crime. However, when you repeat a lie to federal investigators or Congress or the courts, it becomes a federal offense.
Dorsey could quibble over the term"shadow-banning" but the question was obviously meant as a follow-up to the inquiry over"rigging" discourse on the platform. He could also stress other answers, where he tied"shadow-banning" to a more subjective notion of political bias.
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