Replace (1305ET): Fireworks ensued throughout right now’s Congressional grilling of Twitter execs by Republicans on the Home Oversight Committee, whereas AOC had a complete meltdown whereas mendacity via her enamel.

Throughout one tense change, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) interrupted an change between Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) and Twitter’s former head of Belief and Security, asking: “Who made you answerable for what’s true and what’s false?”

“You completely banned my Twitter account however you allowed little one porn throughout Twitter,” she continued.

.@RepMTG to Yoel Roth: “You completely banned my Twitter account however you allowed little one porn throughout Twitter.” pic.twitter.com/kshgUbXD8x

— Greg Value (@greg_price11) February 8, 2023

MTG: “You’ll be able to contemplate your speech canceled throughout my time, since you canceled mine.” pic.twitter.com/Lqjb0sh8g0

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 8, 2023

Greene was completely suspended in January 2022 after tweeting VAERS knowledge about Covid-19 vaccine deaths.

In the meantime, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) advised outright lies in regards to the Twitter account “Libs of TikTok,” stating that Boston Kids’s Hospital by no means marketed hysterectomies for kids.

AOC says that @libsoftiktok lied about Boston Kids’s Hospital giving hysterectomys to kids.

AOC: “That account continues to be on the platform is not it?”

Roth: “Regrettably, sure it’s” pic.twitter.com/o64LZpO55o

— Greg Value (@greg_price11) February 8, 2023

Which they completely did…

The story about Boston Kids’s Hospital was additionally not a lie.

Chaya actually posted a video on their YouTube to her Twitter.https://t.co/YB71gc5DSM

— Greg Value (@greg_price11) February 8, 2023

The nice irony right here is that @AOC is mendacity. Libs of TikTok has merely reported the info about what these hospitals have stated about their very own providers. It is all documented. However that is what they do — they use misinformation to smear you as being a supply of it. https://t.co/b5rRlIrFDz

— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) February 8, 2023

Vital message for @AOC: pic.twitter.com/88iy8JFk9S

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 8, 2023

She additionally claimed the NY Publish’s Hunter Biden laptop computer story was “alleged,” and that the Publish ought to have shared extra details about their sourcing for the story (they did).

Rep. @AOC repeatedly refers to @nypost‘s reporting on Hunter’s laptop computer contents as “alleged,” then blames the Publish for Twitter censoring them, saying they need to have shared extra information about their sourcing on this “pretend story” pic.twitter.com/1k56oK8Llh

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 8, 2023

The correlation between AOC’s theatrics and her mendacity is uncanny.

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The Home Oversight Committee on Wednesday is listening to testimony from three former, high Twitter workers over the corporate’s dealing with of the Hunter Biden laptop computer story.

Home Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ok), who has launched a broad investigation into the Biden household dealings, is probing the social media big following revelations from new Twitter proprietor Elon Musk, who launched inner communications from Twitter workers about their censorship efforts.

Twitter, below the management of our witnesses right now, was a non-public firm the federal government used to perform what it constitutionally can’t: restrict the free train of speech.@GOPoversight will look at this coordination between the federal government & Large Tech. @MariaBartiromo pic.twitter.com/QCWsbM3NYc

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) February 8, 2023

WITNESSES:

•     Vijaya Gadde, Former Chief Authorized Officer of Twitter
•     James Baker, Former Deputy Basic Counsel of Twitter
•     Yoel Roth, Former International Head of Belief & Security of Twitter

Watch stay:

Former FBI official/Twitter counsel Jim Baker cannot reply if he talked to the FBI about Hunter’s laptop computer: “I don’t recall chatting with the FBI sitting right here right now.” pic.twitter.com/SJoZR5ivWS

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 8, 2023

In anticipation of right now’s testimony, White Home spokesman Ian Sams blasted the GOP for pulling a “weird political stunt.”

“This seems to be the newest effort by the Home Republican majority’s most excessive MAGA members to query and relitigate the end result of the 2020 election,” he stated in an announcement, including “This isn’t what the American individuals need their leaders to work on.”

“Because the president has stated and made his focus, the American individuals anticipate their leaders to work collectively in a bipartisan approach on the problems that almost all impression their lives and their households, not assault his household with long-debunked conspiracy theories.”

Mr. Biden’s marketing campaign branded the now-authenticated laptop computer as Russian disinformation, a principle that was peddled by greater than 50 former U.S. senior intelligence officers in an open letter to the general public.

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the highest Democrat on the committee, accused Republicans of pursuing “already debunked and hyperpartisan conspiracy theories about President Biden, his household and the so-called deep state.” –Washington Instances

The listening to is the primary of many specializing in “defending speech from authorities interference and social media bias,” in response to the committee.

“Instantly following the story’s publication, America witnessed a coordinated marketing campaign by social media corporations, mainstream information and the intelligence neighborhood to suppress and delegitimize the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer and its contents,” Comer will say. “We owe it to the American individuals to offer solutions about this collusion to censor details about Joe Biden’s involvement in his household’s enterprise schemes.“