Two Republican congressmen, Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) made a renewed request to Twitter for documents related to its internal moderation policies. They asked for “an accounting of all content moderation decisions” made by Twitter over the last year, and documentation on the decision to apply “fact check” notations to posts made by then-President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots and the “autonomous zone in Washington, D.C.” The letter (pdf) says Twitter played a “leading role” among big tech companies in enacting political censorship. During the election, Twitter suppressed news from a mainstream news outlet (NY Post) unfavorable to then-candidate Joe Biden’s son and then banned President Donald Trump’s account. “Big Tech, especially Twitter, Inc., is engaged in systematic viewpoint-based discrimination. In the unfortunate phenomenon of ‘cancel culture,’ Twitter plays a leading role in silencing and censoring political speech of conservative Americans,” reads the letter directed to Twitter CEO …
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