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Ex-Twitter execs deny pressure to block Hunter Biden story
By FARNOUSH AMIRI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Twitter executives conced-
ed Wednesday they made a mistake by blocking a story
about Hunter Biden, the president’s son, from the social
media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election, but
adamantly denied Republican assertions they were pres-
sured by Democrats and law enforcement to suppress
the story.
“The decisions here aren’t straightforward, and hindsight
is 20/20,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and
safety, testified to Congress.
“It isn’t obvious what the right response is to a suspected,
but not confirmed, cyberattack by another government
on a presidential election.”
He added, “Twitter erred in this case because we wanted
to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016.”
The three former executives appeared before the House
Oversight and Accountability Committee to testify for the
first time about the company’s decision to initially block
from Twitter a New York Post article in October 2020 about
the contents of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, step off Air Force One, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at
Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y.
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