{"id":1775134,"date":"2022-12-14T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775134"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:48:31","slug":"congressional-republicans-considering-investigation-over-elon-musks-twitter-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-republicans-considering-investigation-over-elon-musks-twitter-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Republicans Considering Investigation Over Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221;"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fcongressional-republicans-considering-investigation-over-elon-musks-twitter-files%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=1775134&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--><p class=\"speakable\">Republicans are eyeing investigatory hearings into Twitter&#8217;s purported censorship of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> and conservatives when they take control of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-of-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. House of Representatives<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Republicans say the latest installment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; show that censorship ran amok at the social media giant leading up to and after the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big Tech has appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee numerous times, and have claimed they weren\u2019t shadow-banning people on their platforms,&#8221; said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the incoming chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. &#8220;These new Twitter files have exposed that was a lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said Republicans on the energy and commerce panel were still looking at oversight options related to Twitter next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-gop-aim-big-tech-cdc-parents-rights-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HOUSE GOP TAKES AIM AT BIG TECH WITH PARENT&#8217;S RIGHTS AGENDA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Elon-Musk-government.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Republicans say that the latest installment of Elon Musk&#039;s \" Twitter Files  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Republicans say that the latest installment of Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; show that censorship ran amok at the social media giant leading up to and after the 2020 election.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue our robust oversight of all Big Tech companies to be more transparent about how they&#8217;re silencing Americans,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-files-part-3-reveals-what-led-trumps-removal-social-media-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TWITTER FILES PART 3 REVEALS WHAT LED TO TRUMP&#8217;S REMOVAL FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are similarly weighing a probe into Twitter&#8217;s conduct during the pre-Musk era.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1238296748.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"\" We \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      &#8220;We&#8217;ll continue our robust oversight of all Big Tech companies to be more transparent about how they&#8217;re silencing Americans,&#8221; said McMorris Rodgers.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Bill Clark\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Everything\u2019s on the table when it comes to the Twitter files,&#8221; said a judiciary committee spokesman. &#8220;Stay tuned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter did not respond to requests for comment on this story.<\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers are weighing investigations after Musk allowed journalists to comb through thousands of pages of internal Twitter documents. That led to a series of tweets on the &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; \u2014 a multipart expose into the social media giant&#8217;s censorship of Trump and conservative voices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/james-baker-twitter-lawyer-fired-elon-musk-played-key-role-fbi-trump-russia-collusion-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>JAMES BAKER, TWITTER LAWYER FIRED BY ELON MUSK, PLAYED KEY ROLE IN FBI\u2019S TRUMP-RUSSIA COLLUSION PROBE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/640\/320\/Jim-Jordan-CC-3.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"GOP lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are also weighing a probe into Twitter&#039;s conduct during the pre-Musk era.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      GOP lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are also weighing a probe into Twitter&#8217;s conduct during the pre-Musk era.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Photographer: Ting Shen\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The first part of the expose showed how Twitter&#8217;s standards on free speech eroded during the 2020 election, culminating in Trump&#8217;s ban from the platform in the wake of the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. The second installment detailed the shadow-banning of conservative voices on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third installment detailed how Twitter executives decided to ban Trump even though the former president was not in violation of the social media company&#8217;s rules.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Haris Alic is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are eyeing investigatory hearings into Twitter&#8217;s purported censorship of former President Donald Trump and conservatives when they take control of the U.S. House of Representatives next month.Republicans say the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1775137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4490,4249,5665,3976,4842,3819,3756,4253],"class_list":["post-1775134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-congressional","tag-elon","tag-files","tag-investigation","tag-musks","tag-report","tag-republicans","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775134","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}