WASHINGTON — Former Twitter Inc. officials acknowledged that blocking the spread of a news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was a mistake, but they told lawmakers the action was not politically motivated or directed by FBI or U.S. intelligence officials.
The comments came Wednesday at a hearing House Republicans scheduled to probe the social media company’s alleged cooperation with the FBI to squelch the story of the now-infamous laptop, the opening salvo in their investigation into the finances of President Joe Biden’s family.
At the hearing, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee focused on the platform’s decision to limit distribution of the unflattering piece by the New York Post that Republicans say show the younger Biden traded on his family name. It was published just weeks before the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump lost to Biden.
