Rep. Byron Donalds is using the 'Twitter Files' hearing to demand answers about why the platform removed revenge porn of the president's son.
that Twitter was in cahoots with the Democratic Party to prevent the story from hurting Biden ahead of the 2020 election. tried to prove it on Wednesday by grilling Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of public trust and safety, about why a Twitter employee wrote that they “handled” a request from Biden’s team to take down certain posts. The posts in question, as has been widely reported, were nonconsensual nude photos of Hunter Biden.
“The email is very clear: ‘More to review from Biden team.’ The response three hours later: ‘Handled these,'” Donalds said while gesturing to a giant poster board with URLs that had linked to images of Hunter Biden’s penis. “What does ‘handled these’ mean?'” “My understanding is that these tweets contained nonconsensual nude photos of Hunter Biden, and they were removed by the company under our terms of service,” Roth replied. Donalds interrupted to question Roth about how he knew the URLs linked to revenge porn, to which Roth explained that there had been “extensive public reporting” about what the tweets contained.
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