Twitter CEO Dorsey pressed by Cruz on restricting Hunter Biden stories: 'Who the hell elected you?'

Twitter CEO Dorsey pressed by Cruz on restricting Hunter Biden stories: 
'Who the hell elected you?'

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-grills-twitter-ceo-dorsey-
restricting-hunter-biden-stories

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ripped into Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey during a 
hearing with tech titans on Wednesday, accusing him and his social media 
platform of improperly censoring reporting that reflected poorly on 
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, asking at point, "Who the hell 
elected you?"

The exchange comes as Republicans over the last several weeks have decried 
Twitter's actions to lock the New York Post's Twitter account, and censor 
links to the outlet's stories, on Biden's son, Hunter, and his overseas 
business dealings.

Dorsey said this was due to a policy regarding hacked materials, because 
the stories were based on emails from Hunter Biden's purported laptop. 
Cruz noted that a New York Times article about President Trump's tax 
returns did not face the same treatment, even though the materials 
appeared to be leaked illegally.

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"Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the 
media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to 
hear, and why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC 
silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?" Cruz asked.

Dorsey claimed that this was not the case. He also denied that Twitter has 
the ability to influence elections, a claim that Cruz derided as "absurd."

“You’re testifying to this committee right now that Twitter, when it 
silences people, when it censors people, when it blocks political speech, 
that has no impact on elections?”

“People have choice of other communication channels,” Dorsey claimed.

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“Not if they don’t hear information,” Cruz shot back. “If you don’t think 
you have the power to influence elections, why do you block anything?”

Dorsey claimed that his policies are “making sure more that voices on the 
platform are possible,” which is done by silencing abuse and harassment. 
He did admit that the policy under which the Post story was censored was 
flawed, and that other users should not have been blocked from sharing 
links to it. He claimed that individual users could now share the Post 
story, but soon after Cruz tweeted that this was still not the case.

The exchange came during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
Committee hearing on what is known as Section 230 protections that keep 
social media platforms from being liable for statements made through their 
services. Dorsey appeared alongside Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and 
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Later in the hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., challenged Dorsey's claim 
that Twitter does not influence elections with their policies or actions. 
He also challenged the company's decision to censor the Post's reporting, 
as well as Facebook's decision to flag it.

"Do either one of you have any evidence that the New York Post story is 
part of Russian disinformation or that those emails aren't authentic?" 
Johnson asked Dorsey and Zuckerberg.

"We don't," Dorsey said. He then reiterated that they believed it violated 
their hacking policy, only for Johnson to point out that the emails were 
not hacked.

Zuckerberg said that Facebook relied on the FBI's intelligence and alerts 
that they provided that included a warning to be on the lookup for a leak 
and release of a trove of information. He acknowledged that the alert did 
not specifically say anything about information in the Post's reporting.

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Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook did not censor the story, but that they 
did flag it for fact-checking and held it back during that process.

Lawmakers looking to strip those protections claim that by selectively 
censoring posts due to their content -- beyond typical terms of service 
prohibiting offensive or harassing statements -- the tech companies are 
taking an active approach akin to a publisher instead of merely providing 
a platform where individual users post whatever statements they want.



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