It’s clear that Democrats and big tech companies are attempting to censor the truth about their political corruption and collusion. The recent Twitter Files hearings are proof of that. During the hearings, Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Democratic Virgin Islands Rep. Stacey Plaskett clashed over the testimony of journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, who disclosed details of the FBI’s alleged ties to Twitter.
Jordan pointed to the Federal Trade Commission’s letter demanding that journalists with access to Twitter’s records be publicly named. He said that Taibbi and Shellenberger “are both Democrats” and “I don’t think they’re here to help us politically, I think they’re here to tell us the truth.” Plaskett accused Republicans of promoting a false narrative and said that Twitter CEO Elon Musk is helping the party “politically”.
“You don’t want people to see what happened,” Jordan continued. “The full video, transparency. You don’t want that, and you don’t want two journalists who have been named personally by the Biden administration, the FTC in a letter. They say they’re here to help and tell their story, and frankly, I think they’re brave individuals for being willing to come after being named in a letter from the Biden FTC.”
The tension between the two representatives was palpable as Plaskett demanded the hearing proceed and Jordan countered, “Oh now we want to get on with it, so you can say all the things you want and not put out the facts.”
Taibbi testified that he released the first batch of the Twitter Files in early December to detail Twitter’s alleged role in suppressing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story. He also disclosed how the FBI warned Twitter of a potential “hack-and-leak” by “state actors” surrounding the laptop story to influence the 2020 presidential election. Shellenberger disclosed that the FBI paid Twitter nearly $3.5 million between October 2019 and February 2021 to compensate for the time employees managed the agency’s requests.
The FBI called the Twitter Files an attempt to “discredit the agency” by disclosing its correspondence with Twitter in the lead-up to the election, in a Dec. 21 statement, but the truth is that Democrats and big tech companies are attempting to censor the truth about their political corruption and collusion.
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It’s time for lawmakers to stand up and fight this blatant censorship and speak out against the Democrats’ political corruption. We must demand transparency and hold these big tech companies and the Biden administration accountable for their actions. We must support brave journalists like Taibbi and Shellenberger who are willing to tell the truth in the face of suppression.
