{"id":1447731,"date":"2022-04-20T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447731"},"modified":"2022-04-20T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:05:55","slug":"exclusive-top-oversight-republican-needs-twitter-preserve-communications-related-to-hunter-bidens-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-top-oversight-republican-needs-twitter-preserve-communications-related-to-hunter-bidens-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Top Oversight Republican needs Twitter preserve communications related to Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-top-oversight-republican-needs-twitter-preserve-communications-related-to-hunter-bidens-laptop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447731&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is demanding that Twitter preserve all communications related to its October 2020 decision to ban a New York Post story based on materials from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post published a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">story<\/a> on Oct. 14, 2020, reporting a meeting between Hunter Biden, a top Burisma Energy executive, and Joe Biden based off of emails from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/14\/twitter-blocking-links-new-york-post-hunter-biden-email-story\/\">locked<\/a> the New York Post out of its account and refused to reinstate the outlet unless it deleted tweets promoting the story. The social media giant cited its hacked materials policy, despite no proof that the laptop was hacked by any entity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis suppression of information on Twitter occurred during a critical time in the vetting process of presidential candidates and may have influenced the electoral process. The American people have a right to know the policies and decision-makers responsible for suppressing certain views and information on Twitter,\u201d Ranking Member James Comer of Kentucky wrote Wednesday to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal in a letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Dorsey, then the head of Twitter, described the ban as a \u201cmistake\u201d during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in November 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/15\/twitter-censors-house-judiciary-republicans-link-new-york-post-hunter-biden\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Twitter Reverses Censorship Of House GOP Committee Webpage, Says It Was Blocked \u2018In Error\u2019)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize it as a mistake that we made, both in terms of the intention of the policy and also the enforcement action of not allowing people to share it publicly or privately,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/17\/jack-dorsey-admits-lockout-of-the-post-was-a-mistake\/\">testified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the letter here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Letter to Twitter Re Doc Preservation 4-20-2022 on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/570778840\/Letter-to-Twitter-Re-Doc-Preservation-4-20-2022#from_embed\">Letter to Twitter Re Doc Preservation 4-20-2022<\/a> by <a title=\"View Michael Ginsberg&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/548087574\/Michael-Ginsberg#from_embed\">Michael Ginsberg<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p>Comer notes Hunter Biden\u2019s various international business ventures, including his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/23\/hunter-biden-senate-report-ukraine-china-burisma\/\">time<\/a> on Burisma\u2019s board and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/20\/world\/hunter-biden-china-cobalt.html\">participation<\/a> in the sale of a Congolese cobalt mine to a Chinese firm. Hunter and his uncle, James Biden, were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/27\/hunter-biden-patrick-ho-cefc-fara\/\">paid<\/a> millions of dollars for their work for CEFC China Energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedia reports indicate Hunter Biden paid various bills for his father, including thousands of dollars for the then-Vice President\u2019s home in Delaware. If true, the sources of Hunter Biden\u2019s income could exercise undue influence on national security and other U.S. policy positions,\u201d he adds in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>He is instructing Twitter to preserve all electronic documents produced since Jan. 1, 2020, related to Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. Comer also requests that Twitter contact former employees and contractors who may have access to documents related to the laptop as part of the preservation process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know Hunter Biden is a walking ethical and national security nightmare. The President\u2019s son\u2019s laptop is only the tip of the iceberg and even Twitter knows it. Big Tech\u2019s decision-makers and their policies shouldn\u2019t be hiding behind closed doors. The American people have a right to know who is responsible for censoring credible stories and the preservation of Twitter\u2019s decision-making processes will help determine whether Big Tech is attempting to influence our electoral process,\u201d Comer told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is demanding that Twitter preserve all communications related to its October 2020 decision to ban a New York Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1447748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}