'Thank God' for Matt Taibbi, Elon Musk for showing us Twitter was 'a subsidiary of the FBI'

During the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on Wednesday over Twitter's alleged censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story and expert COVID information, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace had a pointed question for the platform's former Chief Legal Officer.

“Did the U.S. government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to moderate certain tweets? Yes or no?” Mace asked Vijaya Gadde.

"We have a program," Gadde began.

Mace interjected, "yes or no?" She again asked the question, "Did the U.S. government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to moderate certain tweets? Yes or no?”

BREAKING: @RepNancyMace: "Did the U.S. government ever pressure Twitter to moderate or censor certain Tweets?"

Gadde; former GC at TWT. "We received legal demands to remove content from the platform from the US government." Twitter was a SUBSIDIARY of the FBI! #Twitter #ampFW pic.twitter.com/oH3iGsylNZ — FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) February 8, 2023

Gadde replied, “We receive legal demands from the U.S. government and governments all around the world."

“Thank God for Matt Taibbi,” Mace said. “Thank God for Elon Musk for showing us Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put real Americans’ lives in danger because they didn’t have that information.”

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi was the first among a number of reporters to present the Twitter Files, which Twitter owner Elon Musk made available to selected press members.

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