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Twitter CEO Admits to ‘No Policy’ Against Holocaust Denial as NY Post Remains Locked Out for Anti-Biden Story

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By Dan Andros
Managing Editor

October 28, 2020

UPDATE 2: Twitter has responded to Senator Cruz’s accusation by saying it was an AMP link issue. See below (and continue scrolling for the original story)

People may have had trouble Tweeting in this specific instance because the article shared included an Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) link.

Since multiple URLs can redirect to the same article, we fixed this specific use case. You should now have no issues Tweeting this.

— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) October 28, 2020

UPDATE: Senator Ted Cruz just accused Jack Dorsey of lying under oath, which is a felony during a Senate hearing. Cruz recorded video of him trying to tweet the New York Post story in question, and Twitter blocked the URL.

What @jack told the Senate, under oath, is false. I just tried to tweet the @nypost story alleging Biden’s CCP corruption.

Still blocked.

18 USC 1621 makes it a felony to lie under oath to the Senate. https://t.co/BDHRB8CEzy

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 28, 2020

We’ll continue to update this developing story as necessary.

ORIGINAL STORY

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is standing before a Senate Commerce Committee and facing tough questions about an apparent double standard when it comes to censorship. Multiple Senators, including Ted Cruz, left Dorsey fumbling to explain this glaring disparity in censorship application.

Senator Cory Gardner (R. Colorado) grilled Dorsey about the stunning decision to allow Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s tweets calling for violence against Israel to stand, while The New York Post continues to be locked out of their account for posting their damaging Joe Biden story.

Bari Weiss summed up the discrep by tweeting, “Just making sure I’ve got this @Twitter, @Jack: oppo dump on Biden is misinformation and Holocaust denial is not?”

Just making sure I’ve got this @Twitter, @jack: oppo dump on Biden is misinformation and Holocaust denial is not? https://t.co/EtxYtt7p05

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) October 28, 2020

Senator Ted Cruz (R. Texas) asked Dorsey if he believed Twitter could impact elections, to which the CEO responded with a flat “no”. A visibly stunned Cruz fired back, “If you don’t think you have the power to influence the elections, why do you block anything?”

.@tedcruz: "You're testifying to this committee right now, that Twitter—when it silences people, when it censors people, when it blocks political speech— that has no impact on elections?…

If you don't think you have the power to influence elections, why do you block anything?" pic.twitter.com/CHNDN7Am8q

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 28, 2020

Dorsey fumbled to find solid footing, but never really landed on anything of substance.

Incredibly, this tweet from the Ayatollah from 2014 denying the Holocaust still remains:

#Holocaust is an event whose reality is uncertain and if it has happened, it's uncertain how it has happened.

— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) March 21, 2014

He also encouraged nations to “fight” the “Zionist regime” and promised to support anyone who does so.

We will support and assist any nation or any group anywhere who opposes and fights the Zionist regime, and we do not hesitate to say this.#FlyTheFlag

— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 20, 2020

In a speech earlier this year, the Ayatollah referred to Israel as a “cancer” that must be “destroyed”.

“The Zionist regime is a deadly, cancerous growth and a detriment to this region. It will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also appeared at the Senate hearing today.

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