Former Twitter executives on Wednesday testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that the U.S. government did not directly pressure the social media company to block a New York Post article on Hunter Biden in 2020, but Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, said there's more to uncover and that the committee will "go where the evidence leads us."
Fallon also said reports that the hearing backfired on Republicans is "liberal fantasy land," and that Democrats "have to spin it some way because these are substantive issues."
Fallon said Democrats don't want the public to know about the Biden family's 152 suspicious activity reports to which Congress hasn't been given access.
"What we're worried about is [former Twitter executives] collaborating and colluding with governmental agencies because that is a violation of the Hatch Act," Fallon said Thursday on Newsmax's "National Report."
"If that's true, that violates federal law. We also we want to know if Joe Biden was involved in influence-peddling and if he's compromised, and, if so, then he's a risk to national security. So, these were very weighty hearings, and that's why we needed to get them under oath and on the record."
Testifying at Wednesday's hearing were: Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of the Trust and Safety Council; James Baker, former Twitter deputy counsel; Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's former chief legal officer; and Anika Collier Navaroli, a former Twitter employee-turned-whistleblower.
Asked by Fallon if former FBI agent Elvis Chan sent him 10 confidential documents on the day before the Hunter Biden story broke, Roth said yes, but that they didn't relate to the laptop story.
"I find that hard to believe, and that's why we have them under oath," Fallon said. "So now we have them on record, and we're going to go where the evidence leads us."
Roth's emails have become the focus of the so-called Twitter Files, a series of reports based on Twitter documents that Twitter CEO Elon Musk instructed the company to send to several journalists.
The files suggest that company executives took advice from the FBI and other government officials regarding content moderation issues.
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