US Lawmakers Call on Twitter to Bar Chinese Communist Party Accounts Over Virus Disinformation

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) listens as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington on Sep. 27, 2018. Tom Williams/AFP via Getty Images

Two Republican lawmakers are urging Twitter to ban Chinese Communist Party officials from the social media platform in response to the regime’s aggressive propaganda campaign to “whitewash” its coverup of the outbreak.

“While the coronavirus pandemic is afflicting families, governments, and markets around the world, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a massive propaganda campaign to rewrite the history of COVID-19 and whitewash the Party’s lies,” wrote Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) in a March 20 letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.