‘An abuse of public resources. An embarrassment.’
Alexandria didn’t hold back when she summed up yesterday’s Oversight Committee hearing.
Rather than investigate price gouging or other issues affecting everyday lives, Republicans held a hearing to accuse Twitter of ‘colluding’ with Democrats to suppress conservative views online.
The truth is that there is no evidence of bias against the right-wing on Twitter. In fact, Alexandria revealed that Twitter changed their own content moderation policy in 2019 in order to allow a racist tweet from Trump to stay up.1
After Trump tweeted that Alexandria and the rest of the Squad should ‘go back to where they came from,’ a Twitter employee in charge of content moderation flagged that the tweet was an explicit violation of the company’s policy. So what happened? Twitter changed the policy and the tweet stayed up.
And that’s not all. Alexandria also highlighted how another Twitter account spearheaded an online harassment campaign that falsely alleged hysterectomies were being performed on young transgender children at Boston Children’s Hospital. These claims incited a wave of right-wing threats of violence against the hospital and its staff, culminating in a bomb threat last August. But to date, Twitter has refused to suspend the account.
In solidarity,
Team AOC
1 - Business Insider