Republican congressman Jim Jordan, of Ohio, along with Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin) blasted Twitter on Wednesday, accusing the social media platform of being biased against conservatives and demanded information about its reactions to two tweets by President Donald Trump, Reuters reports.
In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the two men complained about Twitter’s decision in late May to “fact check” Trump’s assertion linking mailed ballots with voter fraud. Twitter at the time said in a statement that it had added a label to two Trump tweets because they “could confuse voters.”
They also objected to Twitter’s treatment of a Trump tweet saying he would use “serious force” to keep protesters from creating an autonomous zone in Washington, D.C. Twitter said the tweet violated a policy against abusive behavior but did not take it down.
The lawmakers also accused a Twitter official, whom they did not name, of using insulting language to talk about the president and a White House official, according to Reuters.
Jordan and Sensenbrenner said Twitter’s content moderation was not neutral and that it more often took aim at conservatives.
In their letter, the two representatives asked Twitter to provide an accounting of content moderation decisions affecting Americans in the past year, as well as documents and communications regarding Twitter’s treatment of the Trump tweets.
