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How Twitter Hearing Turned into a Dumpster Fire for GOP

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Twitter and the Chrissy Teigen Thing - It Was Business as Usual

Twitter had a huge file of requests for action from both Democrats and Republicans. A former Trump official told Rolling Stone, quote, it was strange to me when all of these investigations were announced because it was all about the exact same stuff that we had done when Trump was in office. And then another thing we learned, courtesy of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is that when President Trump literally violated Twitter rules by tweeting that AOC and others in the squad should go back where they came from,. We learned that this language was actually in the Twitter's content moderation guidelines as an example of something that is forbidden on Twitter.

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