US Republicans are set to subpoena Twitter boss Jack Dorsey after the social media platform and rival Facebook blocked access to a news article making unproven allegations against Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son.
Senator Ted Cruz yesterday accused the tech giants of using their “corporate power to silence the press and cover up allegations of corruption”, charging them with “active censorship” and “election day interference”. The Senate Judiciary Committee now plans to vote next week whether to haul in Dorsey to answer questions about why Twitter users were prevented from posting links to the story.
The article that triggered the row was published on Wednesday by the New York Post, which claimed that “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company”.
