Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing Silicon Valley in the U.S. House of Representatives, and attorney Vijay Gade, who served as Twitter’s general counsel and head of the legal, political and trust departments, were fired by Musk’s new boss and CEO.
Two Native Americans, Congressmen Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gade, figure prominently in the laptop story of Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden.
Musk, the world’s richest man who bought Twitter last month, said on Friday that he would release details of Twitter’s “harassment” over the controversial New York Post article about Biden’s Hunter laptop, which was published ahead of the US presidential election in 2020.
He also tweeted that it would be “awesome” and “bring Q to life”.
The article claims to contain emails from a laptop owned by Hunter. The New York Post reported that it was aware of the existence of an email from President Trump’s former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and received an email from Trump’s then-personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Twitter initially restricted the story from spreading, citing concerns that it could be the result of a foreign disinformation campaign. However, the social network quickly withdrew its response, with then-CEO Jack Dorsey calling the decision to block the link “unacceptable.”
Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing Silicon Valley in the U.S. House of Representatives, and attorney Vijay Gade, who served as Twitter’s general counsel and head of the legal, political and trust departments, were fired by Musk’s new boss and CEO.
Author Matt Taibbi posted a series of tweets along with an internal Twitter post about allegations that social media platforms covered up news and information about Hunter’s laptop during the 2020 election.
According to Matt Taibbi, Ro Khanna appears to have doubts about Twitter’s decision to restrict access to the New York Post investigative report on Hunter’s laptop. After the news broke, Musk tweeted, “Lo Cana is great.” Mr Khanna criticized the so-called Twitter censorship in a confidential email to Vijay Gadda.
“I say this as a staunch supporter of Biden and believe that he did nothing wrong. But now this story is more about censorship than relatively modest e-mail, and has become a bigger business than it should have been during the presidential campaign to spread newspaper stories.” It looks like the New York Post caused more backlash than it helped. Mr. Khanna wrote a letter to Vijay Gada asking him not to disclose the text of his email.
Hanna said Twitter’s actions appear to violate First Amendment principles. The NYT should have that right. Journalists should be held accountable for wrongdoing by their sources, unless they are actively supporting the hack,” Hanna said. In response to Hanna’s email, Ms. Gadde reaffirmed Twitter’s policy and decision to hack mail materials,” she wrote.
“The spokesperson’s account has not been permanently banned. We have asked him to remove tweets that contain content that violates our policies, and until he complies, his account will be restricted,” wrote Gadde Hanne. Matt Taibbi writes that some of the first voice control tools were developed to combat spam and financial fraud. Tubby said: “In 2020, requests to take down tweets from related entities were commonplace. One executive wrote to another: “This is what the Biden team will consider next.” The answer is “In progress”. Both sides have access to this tool, Taibbi said.
In 2020, for example, requests from the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were accepted and followed through. But the system is unbalanced, he wrote. “It is based on contacts. Twitter has more channels and ways to reach out to the left (okay, Democrats) than to the right, since the service was mostly served by people with the same political beliefs, ”he wrote in one of his tweets. The decision to reconsider is clear in the document you are about to read, but it is also the opinion of many senior and former leaders,” Mr. Taibbi said.
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