The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday is hearing testimony from three former, top Twitter employees over the company's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-K), who has launched a broad investigation into the Biden family dealings, is probing the social media giant following revelations from new Twitter owner Elon Musk, who released internal communications from Twitter staff about their censorship efforts.
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In anticipation of today's testimony, White House spokesman Ian Sams blasted the GOP for pulling a "bizarre political stunt."
"This appears to be the latest effort by the House Republican majority’s most extreme MAGA members to question and relitigate the outcome of the 2020 election," he said in a statement, adding "This is not what the American people want their leaders to work on."
"As the president has said and made his focus, the American people expect their leaders to work together in a bipartisan way on the issues that most impact their lives and their families, not attack his family with long-debunked conspiracy theories."
Mr. Biden’s campaign branded the now-authenticated laptop as Russian disinformation, a theory that was peddled by more than 50 former U.S. senior intelligence officials in an open letter to the public.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, accused Republicans of pursuing “already debunked and hyperpartisan conspiracy theories about President Biden, his family and the so-called deep state.” -Washington Times
The hearing is the first of many focusing on "protecting speech from government interference and social media bias," according to the committee.
"Immediately following the story’s publication, America witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies, mainstream news and the intelligence community to suppress and delegitimize the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop and its contents," Comer will say. "We owe it to the American people to provide answers about this collusion to censor information about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s business schemes."