“There is no easy way to run a global communications platform that satisfies business and revenue goals, individual customer expectations, local laws and cultural norms and get it right every time.” “Defending free expression and maintaining the health of the platform required difficult judgment calls,” he said. Roth, the former head of safety and integrity, said on Wednesday that Twitter acknowledged that censoring the story was a mistake. The platform amended these rules following the Biden controversy, and the then CEO, Jack Dorsey, later called the company’s communications about the Post article “not great”. While the company explicitly allowed “reporting on a hack, or sharing press coverage of hacking”, it blocked stories that shared “personal and private information – like email addresses and phone numbers” – which the Post story appeared to include. In opening statements on Wednesday, the former Twitter staffers described the process by which the story was blocked. Twitter initially blocked people from sharing links to the article for several days, citing concerns over misinformation and spreading a report containing potentially hacked materials. In that report, the Post said it received a copy of a laptop hard drive from Donald Trump’s then-personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, that Hunter Biden had dropped off 18 months earlier at a Delaware computer repair shop and never retrieved. James Baker, former deputy general counsel at Twitter Vijaya Gadde former chief legal officer at Twitter Yoel Roth, former global head of trust and safety and the former employee Anika Collier Navaroli attend the hearing. “The government doesn’t have any role in suppressing speech,” said the Republican committee chairman, James Comer, hammering the former employees for censoring the Post story. But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle used the opportunity to interrogate moderation practices at Twitter and other tech firms. The hearing centered on a question that has long dogged Republicans – why Twitter decided to temporarily restrict the sharing of a story about Hunter Biden in the New York Post, released in October 2020, the month before the US presidential election. The House oversight committee called for questioning recently departed Twitter employees including Vijaya Gadde, the social network’s former chief legal officer, former deputy general counsel James Baker, former head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth and former safety leader Anika Collier Navaroli. The proceedings set the stage for the agenda of a newly Republican-controlled House, underscoring its intention to home in on longstanding and unsubstantiated allegations that big tech platforms have an anti-conservative bias.
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