Officials managing the social media platform built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending, and limited the visibility of entire accounts and trending topics without telling users. Lawmakers will question former Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde, former Deputy General Counsel James Baker, and former Global Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth about their decisions to censor information that may have impacted the outcome of the 2020 election.

“Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor reporting about the Biden family’s shady business schemes,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said in a press release. “We also know members of Twitter’s top censorship team debated how they could justify limiting the spread of the story. They landed on a policy that even some among them doubted.”

[To some extent, accountability has already begun at Twitter. We need a start for accountability at Google and Facebook. — Ed]