by Alex Hammer and Keith Griffith at Daily Mail
- Top Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson suggested his office could release a timeline detailing alleged social media censorship efforts
- House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, meanwhile, said investigations could be on the table for Google and Facebook as well
- The GOP’s leader on the House Oversight Committee James Comer has demanded Twitter appear before Congress for breaching the First Amendment
- It came after Elon Musk said that Twitter was acting on the orders of the federal government when it allegedly censored stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop
- Journalist Matt Taibbi Friday began publishing the damning internal documents
- Taibbi conducted his probe with the cooperation of new Twitter chief Elon Musk
- Emails showed staffers censoring tweets at the behest of the Joe Biden’s team
- His campaign made requests for tweets to be taken down – and Twitter complied
Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson claimed on Sunday that Elon Musk‘s Twitter exposé of the platform’s handling of Hunter Biden‘s laptop is ‘part of a much larger story’ on censorship.
Johnson along with Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley had been investigating foreign business deals made by President Joe Biden‘s son that had been brought to light by a New York Post story published in October 2020.
The story’s reach was quickly limited on Twitter and Facebook over fears that it could have been the product of hacking or a Russian disinformation attempt.
But Republicans have accused Twitter of being motivated by political bias by suppressing a story that was harmful to the Biden campaign just weeks before his White House victory.
‘Listen, I appreciate what Mr. Musk is doing here. It’s certainly revealing an awful lot about that particular censorship. But you know… Senator Grassley and my investigation, Hunter Biden was hampered really, as soon as it started,’ Johnson told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures.
On the House side,…
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