Published 11 February 2023 at 13.33
Foreign. Twitter's fired management was questioned in the US Congress due to Elon Musk's released documents from the company. According to Fox News, the documents showed that Twitter cooperated with the FBI to hide negative information about Joe and Hunter Biden.
“Woke-Stasi had it hot about the ears today,” writes Elon Musk on Twitter.
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Twitter's new owner Elon Musk blasted former executives of the social media giant after they testified before Congress on Wednesday. In a Twitter post compared them to the East German secret police.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee questioned James Baker, Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth and Anika Collier Navaroli — all former Twitter executives — in a series of heated exchanges that later went viral online.
'Woke Stasi had been called ears today,” Musk tweeted, followed by a fire emoji.
He attached a link to “The Lives of Others,” a film about East German residents living under Stasi surveillance.
The Woke Stasi felt the heat today
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2023
Musk's post went viral almost immediately, garnering over 200,000 likes and more than 12 million views.
The billionaire's post came after the end of a lengthy hearing into Twitter's censorship of information about Hunter Biden's laptop and the company's collusion with the government to silence conservative users on the platform, as revealed by Twitter documents released publicly by Musk.
The hearing itself was highly controversial. A Republican member told the former Twitter executives that they risked going to jail.
“You, ladies and gentlemen, knowingly and willfully undermined the 2020 United States presidential election,” said Rep. Clay Higgins, continuing:
“This is bad news, but it's going to get worse because this is the investigation phase. Later comes the arrest phase, and your lawyers are familiar with what that means”
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Roth, Twitter's former director of censorship and security, of allowing “child porn all over Twitter.”
Instead of working to remove child pornography from the platform, Greene said, Roth focused on getting her removed from Twitter.
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, Yoel Roth was in charge of “Trust & Safety” at the company while child porn was all over the platform.
Is this why? pic.twitter.com/u2vUTq6nvw
— Rope. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) February 8, 2023
Florida Republican Byron Donalds pressed Roth about the Hunter Biden expose and showed him links related to the laptop blacked out on the platform.
Roth explained the censorship by saying the links showed “nude photos” of Hunter Biden that must not be shared “without consent” from the politician.
Many Democrats tried to play down the significance of the hearing, calling it a partisan waste of time.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Twitter that the hearing was a flop .
“The moment Republicans took control of congressional hearings, they became a spectacular flop,” she wrote.
“They got to decide the subject, the timing, all the witnesses, and appoint their 'star members' and they STILL failed. What will be their excuse now?” wrote Ocasio-Cortez.
Liberal MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough laughed off the hearing Thursday morning, calling it “a witch hunt.”
Jen Psaki, now an MSNBC contributor, agreed with Scarborough .
“[The hearing] was like a word salad of right-wing madness,” she wrote.