Members of the US House of Representatives wanted to learn from four senior staff details about their tasks, qualifications and possible requirements, also from extra-parliamentary organizations. One ex-employee interviewed was also a member of a new US government advisory committee on cybersecurity as of December 2021.
On October 28, it was reported in the media that high-tech billionaire Elon Musk had acquired social media company Twitter for a total of around $44 billion. As one of his first official acts, he set in motion a broad wave of layoffs in the company. Almost the entire management level was affected, including the previous CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal as well as four senior employees of the control levels:
- James Baker, Twitter Assistant General Counsel
- Vijaya Gadde, Head of Legal, Political and Trust at Twitter
- Yoel Roth, global head of trust and safety at Twitter
- Anika Collier Navaroli, Twitter US Security Policy Team
On Wednesday, February 8, 2023, a hearing entitled “Protecting Free Speech From Government Interference and Social Media Bias” was held in Washington in the presence of the four named Twitter employees before the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The politicians expressed unequivocal criticism of the former Twitter managers, especially through their mostly sharply formulated questions.
Republican takes ex-Twitter manager and censor to court
The questions concerned Twitter’s cooperation with US government and intelligence agencies as well as political decision-makers in order to hide unwanted Twitter accounts, up to the removal, i.e. deletion of undesirable content.
As in Europe and Germany, critical opinions such as well-founded scientific criticism of the new mRNA active ingredients and the resulting vaccination policy were not desired in the USA during the time of the corona crisis and the associated measures. The following dialogue arose between the US politician Nancy Mae (Republican) and Vijaya Gadde regarding the censorship activities on Twitter in this regard:
mace: “Where did you go to medical school?”
gade: “I didn’t go to medical school.”
mace: “Please?”
gade: “I didn’t go to medical school.”
mace: “I thought so.”
mace: “Why do you think you or anyone else on Twitter had the medical expertise to censor a doctor’s expert opinion?”
gade: “Our policies regarding COVID were designed to protect people we have dealt with.”
mace:(interrupting): “They (on Twitter) censored Harvard educated doctors, Stanford educated doctors. Doctors educated in the best places in the world. And they silenced those voices!”
Gadde is confronted with a Twitter post showing a CDC chart that was flagged as “misleading”. However, the accompanying original text apparently displeased the censors. Mace asked Gadde about this:
mace: You’re not a doctor, are you Miss Gadde?
gade: No I’m not
mace: What makes you think you or anyone else at Twitter has the medical expertise to actually censor accurate CDC data?
Gade: I’m not familiar with these specific situations to actually…
mace (interrupting): Yes, I am sure that you are not. But that’s exactly what Twitter did, they called this (the CDC chart) inaccurate.”
For MP Mace, it is generally “ridiculous” that such a survey is taking place. Gadde was then asked if during her tenure there was “pressure from the US government or other agencies to ‘moderate’ or censor certain posts?”. Mace demanded a simple yes or no answer from the visibly irritated Gadde. The answer was:
“We have received legal requests from the US government and governments around the world to remove content from the platform. These were published on a third-party website and anyone can see them.”
Gadde is referring to Jira, a so-called cloud server, which in turn can only be used by authorized persons or groups. Gadde’s ex-colleague Yoel Roth was asked about this (the video is incorrectly dated February 9th):
Rather unknown is the fact that the authorized control instance mentioned in the linked video survey by Yoel Roth on the Jira server called CISA (US Agency for Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security) was newly set up in December 2021 and from the beginning as an employee who was then responsible and active censor Vijaya Gadde lists.
At the beginning of her questioning of those responsible for Twitter, MP Mace described her personal tragic fate in relation to negative experiences after the second COVID vaccination.
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