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How Twitter Hearing Turned into a Dumpster Fire for GOP

How Twitter Hearing Turned into a Dumpster Fire for GOP

<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-bow-down-to-twitter-chief-at-hearing-god-bless-elon-musk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Republicans</a> on Capitol Hill last week were keen to score points against Democrats by pushing the narrative that the federal government was working with <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-twitter-officials-confirm-to-congress-that-trump-not-biden-tried-to-censor-tweets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> to censor a<em> New York Post</em> story about <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-outrages-me-more-than-twitters-censorship-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hunter Biden’s laptop</a>. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick tells Andy Levy why they conceded a spectacular own goal.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

The Daily Beast Podcast · The Daily Beast, Joanna Coles

February 12, 202339m 16sbonusExplicit

Show Notes

Republicans on Capitol Hill last week were keen to score points against Democrats by pushing the narrative that the federal government was working with Twitter to censor a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick tells Andy Levy why they conceded a spectacular own goal.

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