The revelations coming from Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk about the platform’s behind-scenes operation to suppress certain viewpoints has been “pretty horrifying,” and shows that the platform was part of the efforts to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
In the span of a week, Musk has released troves of internal documents, shedding light on Twitter’s “secret blacklists” and censorship tools that worked to censor the unflattering coverage on Hunter Biden.
“If you take the president of the United States off of Twitter, what did that cost? If you are Google, and in the last four days of every month, you refuse to deliver Republican fundraising emails, what does that cost?” Gingrich, an Epoch Times contributor, said in a Dec. 9 interview, referencing Twitter’s decision to ban then-President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and allegations that Google had filtered millions of the Republican National Committee’s political campaign emails to spam folders at the end of each month….}