The Senate Judiciary Committee is reportedly planning to subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, after a controversial decision to block links to two New York Post articles about presidential candidate Joe Biden. Republican senators are calling on Dorsey to testify on October 23rd, calling his decision election interference first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The New York Post articles contain email correspondence allegedly from Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son. They claim to show that Hunter Biden introduced his father to an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. President Trump’s campaign has been using Joe Biden’s supposed links to Ukraine as the basis for repeated political attacks.
Twitter blocked users from sharing links to the articles, under a policy against distributing hacked information. The policy, established in 2018, prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization, the company tweeted.
“We don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials,” Twitter said.
The New York Post never asked the Biden campaign about the critical elements of this story, said spokesman Andrew Bates in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.
He said: “They certainly never raised that Rudy Giuliani—whose discredited conspiracy theories and alliance with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely reported—claimed to have such materials.”
Bates said: “Moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”
