House Republicans are eyeing investigatory hearings into Twitter's purported censorship of former President Donald Trump and conservatives next Congress.
"Twitter Files" show that censorship ran amok at the social media giant leading up to and after the 2020 election.
McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said Republicans on the energy and commerce panel were still looking at oversight options related to Twitter next year. "We'll continue our robust oversight of all Big Tech companies to be more transparent about how they're silencing Americans," she said.GOP lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are similarly weighing a probe into Twitter's conduct during the pre-Musk era.
"Everything’s on the table when it comes to the Twitter files," said a judiciary committee spokesman."Stay tuned."GOP lawmakers are weighing investigations after Musk allowed journalists to comb through thousands of pages of internal Twitter documents. That led to a series of tweets on the"Twitter Files" — a multipart expose into the social media giant's censorship of Trump and conservative voices.
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