Former Twitter executives who met with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday received a stern warning from a representative, who said arrests were in the works.
The purpose of the hearing was to explain how Twitter blocked the sharing of a report on Hunter Biden’s Laptop by the New York Post ahead of the 2020 election.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in May 2021 that blocking the Hunter Biden story was a “total mistake”.
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However, during the interrogations, several members of the House Oversight Committeeincluding Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., were firm in their questioning of reps who appeared Wednesday.
Higgins told former Twitter trust and safety officer Yoel Roth, former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, former Twitter associate attorney James Baker and former Twitter employee Anika Collier Navaroli. Twitter that the result was that the FBI had the “Biden crime family” laptop for a year, knowing he was leaking and that these leaks would hurt the Biden campaign.
From left to right, James Baker, former Assistant General Counsel at Twitter Inc.; Vijaya Gadde, former chief legal officer of Twitter Inc.; Yoel Roth, former global head of trust and safety at Twitter Inc.; and former Twitter Inc. employee Anika Collier Navaroli were sworn in during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing in Washington, DC on Wednesday. (Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Higgins accused the FBI of using its relationship with Twitter to suppress criminal evidence against Joe Biden, a month before the 2020 election.
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“You, ladies and gentlemen, have meddled in the 2020 presidential election of the United States of America, knowingly and willingly,” Higgins said. “That’s the bad news, it’s going to get worse because that’s the investigation part. Later comes the arrest part. Your lawyers know about that.”
The FBI dismissed the characterization of an inappropriate relationship with Twitter and issued a statement in response to Higgins’ comments.
“The FBI does not order or direct any social media company to censor any account or remove information from its platform. In carrying out its law enforcement duties, the FBI receives information voluntarily provided by these companies, when the company believes there is a serious risk of death or serious physical injury,” the FBI said in a statement obtained by Fox News correspondent David Spunt.
“In addition, the FBI also shares identified malicious foreign influence information with these companies. The information we provide in these circumstances is specific to foreign actors – such as Russia, China and Iran and their activities, we do not provide content-based information or stories without attribution to a foreign actor.We may also alert social media companies to intentional attempts to post misinformation about voting times, locations or dates, which may be a federal crime. Private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, actions they take on their platforms and for their customers in response to information we share.”
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Fox News’ David Spunt contributed to this story.