Republicans on Capitol Hill last week were keen to score points against Democrats by pushing the narrative that the federal government was working with Twitter to censor a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. However, in the process they conceded a spectacular own goal as it was revealed that it was in fact former President Donald Trump who had reached out to Twitter to have tweets removed that he found offensive—including one where model Chrissy Teigen called him a “pussy ass bitch.” Mike Masnick, founder and editor of the Techdirt blog, told The New Abnormal the GOP was foolish to think the move wouldn’t backfire in the way they did. “Clearly Republicans know that they’ve made these requests as well and so to put this into a congressional hearing and thinking that their own actions were not going to come out during the hearing, just seems like they have just this weird blind spot in recognizing how their own actions are going to come back and play out for them,” he said.

via daily beast: How ‘Twitter Files’ Hearing Turned Into a Dumpster Fire for GOP

Republicans on Capitol Hill last week were keen to score points against Democrats by pushing the narrative that the federal government was working with Twitter to censor a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. However, in the process they conceded a spectacular own goal as it was revealed that it was in fact former President Donald Trump who had reached out to Twitter to have tweets removed that he found offensive—including one where model Chrissy Teigen called him a “pussy ass bitch.” Mike Masnick, founder and editor of the Techdirt blog, told The New Abnormal the GOP was foolish to think the move wouldn’t backfire in the way they did. “Clearly Republicans know that they’ve made these requests as well and so to put this into a congressional hearing and thinking that their own actions were not going to come out during the hearing, just seems like they have just this weird blind spot in recognizing how their own actions are going to come back and play out for them,” he said.

via daily beast: How ‘Twitter Files’ Hearing Turned Into a Dumpster Fire for GOP