Twitter accused of interfering with 2020 election

 Daily Caller:

Witnesses admitted to Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson that Big Tech platforms have the power to influence elections during a Wednesday Senate hearing.

The senator, a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, questioned Big Tech executives at the committee hearing about their political stances and their impact in covering up the Hunter Biden laptop story and presidential elections. All of the witnesses told the senator they are unaware of the political affiliations of the employees at Big Tech companies.

Johnson raised the story of Twitter covering up the Hunter Biden laptop report by locking the New York Post’s account for posting their own article reporting on the information. The platform then suspended the account of former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing the New York Post’s story.

“Twitter was actually very effective when they blocked the New York Post articles on the Hunter Biden laptop,” he said. “We had Jack Dorsey in front of the Commerce Committee back in October 2020 and both [Texas] Senator [Ted] Cruz and I asked him, because we were talking about Russians using the platforms to impact our elections, and everybody agrees that could happen. We asked Mr. Dorsey do you believe Twitter could impact the election. Mr. Dorsey said ‘no.'” (RELATED: Ron Johnson Calls On Former Buzzfeed Reporter To Verify Hunter Biden Email)
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The senator said Twitter’s actions impacted the 2020 election “to a far greater extent” than Russia ever had the ability of carrying out in 2016 or 2020.

Johnson then read a statement by Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the committee chairman, from a Sept. 23, 2020 press release claiming that Johnson and Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opened an investigation “rooted in Russian disinformation” after releasing information on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“Mr. Chairman, do you want to retract that false allegation now? Now that we know that the Hunter Biden laptop is accurate, that there’s not been one scintilla of information provided in Senator Grassley and I’s report that has ever been refuted. It was 100% accurate. And yet you, as ranking member of the committee, accused me repeatedly of soliciting Russian disinformation,” Johnson said. “Do you want to retract your false allegation here that you issued in your press release on September 23?”

“Uh, no, let’s just focus on what we’re trying to—” Peters began.

“Well, I am focusing on this because this is exactly the type of harm we can do to our political process when you have these Big Tech companies engaging in political debates censoring one side of the political spectrum and amplifying the false allegations of another side,” Johnson said.
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The Democrats used the Russian scam to win an election.  They were engaged in the politics of fraud and now don't want to talk about it.  We now have the worst President in history because of their fraud.

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