Twitter Files: Adam Schiff tried to get a reporter suspended from Twitter

The New York Post reports, “US Rep. Adam Schiff tried to get a journalist suspended from Twitter and to have 'any and all content' related to House Intelligence Committee staffers removed from the site, according to the latest document dump authorized by new owner Elon Musk.

In Tuesday’s installment of the ongoing 'Twitter Files,' independent journalist Matt Taibbi posted a Nov. 20, 2020, email regarding a request from the California Democrat’s office to suppress free speech on the social media platform.

27.They also received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned. Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry: pic.twitter.com/SXI1ekqi13

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023

Taibbi called it an example of the 'astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned.'

The journalist in question was Paul Sperry, a Post columnist who in January 2020 wrote an article for RealClearInvestigations about the purported 'whistleblower' behind former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, for which Schiff served as a House manager.”

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