Twitter Blocks Daily Signal’s Kenosha Video With ‘Sensitive Material’ Warning

Twitter put a “sensitive material” label Thursday on The Daily Signal’s news video showing businesses burned by rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The Daily Signal’s three-minute video, released late Wednesday, highlights some of the destruction wrought by rioters on the nights of Aug. 23 and 24.

The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.

Twitter’s “sensitive material” warning does not remove the content from the platform, but does make the material harder to access by requiring users to click on the “view” button on the warning label.

The Daily Signal’s video features images of Car Source, a Kenosha car dealership torched by rioters; B&L Office Furniture, which was leveled by arson; and parts of the Uptown neighborhood where much of the violence occurred.

The Daily Signal later Thursday asked Twitter to remove the “sensitive material” warning.

Twitter responded Thursday night, saying that the social media giant had moved The Daily Signal’s request to the platform’s support team “for further review.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/22/twitter-slaps-sensitive-material-label-on-daily-signals-kenosha-video/

GOP Senators Subpoena Twitter, Facebook CEOs Over Biased Censorship

It looks like Senate Republicans might finally be stepping up to the plate when it comes to holding social media companies like Twitter and Facebook accountable for their apparent bias against conservatives. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to compel the CEOs of the two companies to testify about their censorious practices.

With Democrats choosing to boycott the hearing, the GOP-controlled committee voted to subpoena Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey if they did not agree to appear voluntarily. The lawmakers wish to hear from the two CEOs about “the suppression and/or censorship of two news articles from the New York Post,” according to the document. They are also asking for information regarding the two platforms’ policies around moderating content “that may interfere” with federal elections.

Both social media companies suppressed the dissemination of a story published by the New York Post, which provided information regarding a hard drive that belonged to Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, who is currently running for president. The story discussed emails found on the hard drive that showed a potential link between the Biden family and shady business deals involving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It also showed evidence that the younger Biden had been engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior with underage girls.

While Joe Biden and his close friends and allies in the corporate press have tried to spin the revelation as Russian disinformation, the Directors of National Intelligence and the FBI debunked this narrative. Both Twitter and Facebook claim that they scuttled the story because it contains “misinformation” and “hacked materials.” Yet, neither have backed up their claim.

Moreover, there was no “hacked material” in the New York Post story — it was information taken directly from Hunter Biden’s hard drive.