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Republicans are demanding hearings on Twitter and more information on whether GOP candidates were blacklisted before elections, after the second release of internal documents showed conservative accounts were suspended or suppressed despite not violating any policies.
The calls for more accountability come as Elon Musk responded ‘yes’ when a user asked him if any political candidates were ‘subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election?’
Republican Senator Roger Wicker has called for the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to hold a hearing into censorship from Big Tech and GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde has called it ‘election interference’.
The release of the second tranche of Twitter files on Thursday night showed the social media giants ‘kept a secret blacklist of topics and accounts’ to prevent them from trending. Conservatives were deliberately downplayed in a scheme critics called ‘Soviet-style bulls***’.
Conservative commentators, including Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk, were deliberately put on a ‘search blacklist’ in Bongino’s case or tabbed ‘do not amplify,’ in the case of Kirk.
But there are now calls to release more files that could unearth similar methods used on Republicans seeking office.
