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Ex-Twitter executive admits ‘mistake’ in censoring Post’s Hunter Biden scoop
NY Post ^ | February 8, 2023 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 02/08/2023 9:06:20 AM PST by BenLurkin

Vijaya Gadde, who received a $12.5 million severance package when she was fired as policy director in October by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, testified before the House Oversight Committee that The Post’s reporting was censored in large part because photos from Hunter’s laptop “looked like they may have been obtained through hacking.”

Gadde also admitted that Hunter Biden never claimed to the company that the laptop was hacked — as opposed to legally provided to The Post.

The committee’s Republican majority said it planned to press hard for evidence of “collusion” between the FBI and Twitter to censor The Post.

Twitter attorney James Baker insisted that there was no “unlawful collusion” between the social network and US officials to censor The Post.

Baker, who was FBI general counsel before joining Twitter in June 2020, told the panel “I was not aware of and certainly did not engage in any conspiracy or other effort to do anything unethical, improper or unlawful while I was at Twitter.”

The FBI paid Twitter $3.5 million from October 2019 to February 2021 to process its moderation requests, according to a document released by Musk.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; bigtech; byanymeansnecessary; elections; elonmusk; fbi; fraud; gadde; invasion; jamesbaker; musk; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; rigged; russiarussiarussia; russiaryssiarussia; stevennelson; trump; truthsocial; twitter; vijaya; vijayagadde
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1 posted on 02/08/2023 9:06:20 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Ass-covering time


2 posted on 02/08/2023 9:08:22 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: BenLurkin

Fu Gadde.


3 posted on 02/08/2023 9:10:11 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: BenLurkin

The huge, pervasive, repeated and coordinated (with government agencies) activities to suppress free speech can in no way be seen as a mistake! A liar made that statement.


4 posted on 02/08/2023 9:11:16 AM PST by rx
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“ The FBI paid Twitter $3.5 million from October 2019 to February 2021 to process its moderation requests”

Twitter was a paid shill for libtards controlling the FBI

It’s plain as day. When will the fbi start arresting themselves?


5 posted on 02/08/2023 9:12:07 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: NWFree

They were paid millions of dollars to cover up for that rat Hunter to protect President Retard.

Conspiracy to Defraud


6 posted on 02/08/2023 9:13:30 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: BenLurkin

“I was not aware of and certainly did not engage in any conspiracy or other effort to do anything unethical, improper or unlawful while I was at Twitter.”

His entire job amounted to a conspiracy to violate the 1st Amendment.


7 posted on 02/08/2023 9:15:06 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; ...

“I was not aware of and certainly did not engage in any conspiracy or other effort to do anything unethical, improper or unlawful while I was at Twitter.”

The only transparency the Creep State a-holes have is in their Lies.


8 posted on 02/08/2023 9:16:11 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

Mistake, No. Profitable most certainly.


9 posted on 02/08/2023 9:16:57 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: BenLurkin

“The committee’s Republican majority said it planned to press hard for evidence of “collusion” between the FBI and Twitter to censor The Post”

And then what?


10 posted on 02/08/2023 9:17:50 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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It was an illegal political contribution-in-kind and a violation of Section 230 because once Vijaya Gadde censored such information, Twitter became an internet content provider, not a content carrier.

Vijaya Gadde belongs in a prison cell.

11 posted on 02/08/2023 9:18:23 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: NWFree

The government paying a private company for processing “moderation” requests is the same as paying that company to censor if censorship results from the moderation. The evidence for collusion in the government violating the 1st Amendment couldn’t be clearer. There was no “mistake”.


12 posted on 02/08/2023 9:22:25 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work o)
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To: BenLurkin

It was no mistake...they did it to help Joe in the election.

And it was an illegal campaign donation.


13 posted on 02/08/2023 9:25:11 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: BenLurkin

Lawyers. Not much else for me to say.


14 posted on 02/08/2023 9:26:35 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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Vijaya Gadde should be the subject of a lawsuit. She needs to be held personally accountable.

15 posted on 02/08/2023 9:30:51 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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She's dead meat given that tech companies are tightening their belts and changing the tunes a bit.

She might be able to get a job at Disney if she hurries.

16 posted on 02/08/2023 9:32:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: BenLurkin
1. Damage done...check
2. Collected huge parting gift...check
3. Sip Mai Tai on beach...check.
Later bitches.
17 posted on 02/08/2023 9:33:56 AM PST by 762X51
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To: BenLurkin

“Oops, My bad”


18 posted on 02/08/2023 9:34:07 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: Honest Nigerian

Well, we can add that she managed to draw a $12.5 million check from Musk to go bye-bye.


19 posted on 02/08/2023 9:35:13 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: BenLurkin

There are mistakes, and crimes where it is not acceptable to merely say, “I’m sorry.”

This guy needs jail time!


20 posted on 02/08/2023 9:46:49 AM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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