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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

GOP congressman promises to call Twitter employees to testify over ‘election suppression’

The Associated Press

A senior Republican lawmaker has vowed to haul Twitter employees before Congress to explain how the social media company grappled with a 2020 New York Post report on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Elon Musk and journalist Matt Taibibi released a trove of internal Twitter documents on Friday night showing how Twitter temporarily suppressed the report, fearing it was a Russian hacking operation days out from the 2020 presidential election.

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