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Ex-Twitter officials reject GOP claims of government collusion

At a contentious House committee hearing, Republicans aired long-held grievances over what they say is Silicon Valley's bias against conservatives.
With a poster of a <em>New York Post</em> front page story about Hunter Biden's emails on display, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) listen during a hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Feb. 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on Twitter's short-lived decision to limit circulation of the <em>Post </em>story in 2020.

Former Twitter officials denied claims the U.S. government and Joe Biden's presidential campaign were involved in the social network's controversial, short-lived decision to block users from sharing a New York Post story about Biden's son Hunter just weeks before the 2020 election.

At a contentious House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday lasting more than six hours, Republicans accused the social media company of colluding with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Biden campaign to censor the Post story and aired long-held grievances over what they say is Silicon Valley's bias against conservatives.

"Twitter, under the leadership of our witnesses today, was a private company the federal government used to accomplish what

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