Hearing Fails to Establish Twitter Collusion With FBI in Blocking New York Post Story

James Baker (L), former deputy general counsel of Twitter; Vijaya Gadde (2L), former chief legal officer of Twitter; Yoel Roth (2R), former global head of trust and safety of Twitter; and former Twitter employee Anika Collier Navaroli (R), are sworn in to testify during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 8, 2023. Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo

Five hours of questioning by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability failed to establish a clear political motivation for former Twitter executives who temporarily blocked sharing of a negative news story about Joe Biden or any testimony establishing collusion between Twitter and the FBI.

Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) nevertheless said the Feb. 8 hearing was important in that it concerned Twitter, which he said received millions of dollars from the FBI, and that it corrected misconceptions about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which he said has been falsely labeled Russian disinformation.