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Ex-Twitter executive admits ‘mistake’ in censoring Post’s Hunter Biden scoop
NY Post ^ | February 8, 2023 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 02/08/2023 9:06:20 AM PST by BenLurkin

Vijaya Gadde, who received a $12.5 million severance package when she was fired as policy director in October by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, testified before the House Oversight Committee that The Post’s reporting was censored in large part because photos from Hunter’s laptop “looked like they may have been obtained through hacking.”

Gadde also admitted that Hunter Biden never claimed to the company that the laptop was hacked — as opposed to legally provided to The Post.

The committee’s Republican majority said it planned to press hard for evidence of “collusion” between the FBI and Twitter to censor The Post.

Twitter attorney James Baker insisted that there was no “unlawful collusion” between the social network and US officials to censor The Post.

Baker, who was FBI general counsel before joining Twitter in June 2020, told the panel “I was not aware of and certainly did not engage in any conspiracy or other effort to do anything unethical, improper or unlawful while I was at Twitter.”

The FBI paid Twitter $3.5 million from October 2019 to February 2021 to process its moderation requests, according to a document released by Musk.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; bigtech; byanymeansnecessary; elections; elonmusk; fbi; fraud; gadde; invasion; jamesbaker; musk; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; rigged; russiarussiarussia; russiaryssiarussia; stevennelson; trump; truthsocial; twitter; vijaya; vijayagadde
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To: RoosterRedux

“She might be able to get a job at Disney if she hurries.”

Only if she identifies as a male.


21 posted on 02/08/2023 9:54:08 AM PST by Colo9250
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To: BenLurkin

She is not American and is Un-American. What a creep. Lock her in prison for breaching first amendment rights of the sitting President of the United States.


22 posted on 02/08/2023 9:57:45 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: BenLurkin

Related:

Twitter Files #5 Released – The Banning of President Trump by Bari Weiss: Just a Few Rogue Actors
December 12, 2022

Excerpt:
“Yes, former AG Bill “Bondo” Barr is a content partner with Twitter File narrative engineer Bari Weiss. Gee, I wonder how that happens?”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/12/twitter-files-5-released-the-banning-of-president-trump-by-bari-weiss-just-a-few-rogue-actors/#more-240822


23 posted on 02/08/2023 9:59:27 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: BenLurkin

Ex-Twitter and FBI admit to rigging and stealing the election.


24 posted on 02/08/2023 10:05:07 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

bttt


25 posted on 02/08/2023 10:12:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

What’s with Jaimie Raskin wearing a head scarf to a Congressional hearing? Don’t they have a dress code they’re supposed to follow?


26 posted on 02/08/2023 10:29:05 AM PST by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

He has cancer of some sort is the story.


27 posted on 02/08/2023 10:30:30 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: mbrfl

I believe Raskin is going through chemo treatments right now thus the bandana on his head!!


28 posted on 02/08/2023 10:30:52 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: BenLurkin
Twitter attorney James Baker insisted that there was no “unlawful collusion” between the social network and US officials to censor The Post.

There was collusion and there was election interference, a crime.

29 posted on 02/08/2023 10:32:27 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: csvset; Trump Girl Kit Cat

Thanks for the info


30 posted on 02/08/2023 10:34:33 AM PST by mbrfl
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To: V_TWIN

“And then what?”

The Republicans plan to hold endless hearings and then give a criminal referral to the Attorney General who will laugh in their faces while pawing through the FBI files on the Republican Congress-critters.

If the AG wants to have some fun he might leak a few tidbits....

This is like a Mafia card game—the Republicans are the marks.


31 posted on 02/08/2023 10:36:03 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BenLurkin

Oooos. My bad. Orange man lost, all is good.


32 posted on 02/08/2023 10:38:21 AM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: BenLurkin
no... it was WRONG!!!
33 posted on 02/08/2023 10:52:27 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: cgbg

Just like I thought 😏


34 posted on 02/08/2023 10:56:33 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: BenLurkin

It must be nice to get 12.5 million dollars to be fired.


35 posted on 02/08/2023 11:01:27 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Rick Santorum just said that ...it wasn’t CENCORING because their was no collusion with the government...

Either he did not read this morning’s Post or the FBI isn’t part of the government.


36 posted on 02/08/2023 11:18:32 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: BenLurkin

“Mistakes were made”
The Hillary defense.


37 posted on 02/08/2023 11:18:51 AM PST by Zathras
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To: BenLurkin

Another great moment from the hearings today regarding Twitter banning into on Covid bioweapon jabs:

Where’d You Go to Medical School?’: GOP Rep Rips Ex-Twitter Official for Censoring Stanford Doc’s Covid Opinions

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/where-d-you-go-to-medical-school-gop-rep-rips-ex-twitter-official-for-censoring-stanford-doc-s-covid-opinions/ar-AA17g2fT

Gadde, former general counsel and head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter, admitted under questioning that no one at the company had the medical standing to assess claims about Covid-mitigation strategies and vaccines so they instead deferred to CDC guidance and censored information that contradicted the agency’s guidance.

“You’re not a doctor, right, Ms. Gadde?” Mace asked.

“No, I’m not,” Gadde responded.

“What makes you think you or anyone else at Twitter have the medical expertise to censor actual, accurate, CDC data?”

“I’m not familiar with these particular situations,” Gadde said before Mace cut her off: “I’m sure you’re not.”

During the tense exchange, Mace accused Gadde and Twitter executives of shutting down Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford medical professor, who was critical of Covid-19 lockdowns.

“You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world, and you silenced those voices,” Mace said, referencing Bhattacharya.In early December, Bari Weiss released the second installment of “The Twitter Files,” which revealed that the social-media giant had created “secret blacklists” suppressing the presence of users deemed problematic.


38 posted on 02/08/2023 12:11:47 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: BenLurkin

think they’ll also admit that it was a “mistake” to censor everything about the covid vax EXCEPT that it was “safe and effective”?


39 posted on 02/08/2023 12:51:10 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: BenLurkin

Pregnant denials, lies, whatever else.

AT THIS POINT WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!


40 posted on 02/08/2023 1:46:21 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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