Twitter: Republicans ask their CEO to testify before the Senate for censoring a story about Joe Biden | 2020 US Elections

The social networks Twitter and Facebook are facing a complicated episode as a result of their decision to censor – totally in the case of the first, and partially in the second – a damaging news for the Democratic candidate Joe Biden published this week by The New York Post. Three Republican senators have begun the process for their visible heads, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, to receive a subpoena to testify before the United States legislative chamber next week. The senators in question are Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and Josh Hawley. All of them sent invitations to the leaders of the social media companies to testify to the Senate in relation to this incident, but these are, in this case, non-binding invitations. In order to obtain a formal summons, they have already announced that they have started the procedures. A Senate committee already has a call to vote, predictably on Tuesday, on a subpoena – subpoena – to the executive president of Twitter, which would take place on October 23, and Josh Hawley, who heads this initiative, has shown confidence in for another vote to go ahead to quote Facebook’s Zuckerberg Senator Ted Cruz, a former candidate to lead the Republican Party and a loyal ally of Donald Trump today, has emphasized that this censorship of news is contrary to the interests of Joe Biden “It is electoral interference, and we are only 19 days away from the elections. It is something that is unprecedented in the history of democracy.The story began on Wednesday, when Twitter completely eliminated the possibility of its users sharing the news published by The New York Post, which revealed an involvement of Joe Biden in his son Hunter’s business in Ukraine and a possible connection to the purge. of an attorney general in the former Soviet republic when the current candidate was vice president in the Obama administration. Twitter even completely blocked the URL so that not even the newspaper itself could spread its exclusive through this social network, while Facebook “reduced” its circulation pending, they argued, an external verification of the piece. Both users of social networks and members of the Republican Party reacted by accusing social networks of censorship and of playing the game of Joe Biden’s campaign – since the which has come to celebrate this censorship-. Ted Cruz himself took to Twitter to ask why this decision was only made with information damaging to the Democratic candidate and nothing was done when the New York Times published a report on the taxes paid by Donald Trump released just before the first electoral debate.