House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes condemned Twitter on Sunday for continuing to apply a layer of censorship on the Drudge Report.
About two months after the California Republican raised the alarm about Drudge Report “being censored by Twitter,” Nunes again nailed the social media platform for putting up a wall separating users from the top right-leaning news aggregator. “I just looked on Twitter,” Nunes said on “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo.” “The Drudge Report is being censored today, so for the last three or four days I haven’t been able to get on the Drudge Report because it’s being censored on Twitter.”
He connected the issue to the larger issue of censorship and bias conservatives face in the technology arena, days after a Google search showed the word “Nazism” in an information box about the California Republican Party’s ideology. “So this censorship of conservatives and Republicans and conservative values continues in this country and here in California we’re on the front lines,” he added.
Asked what exactly is going on with Nunes’ attempts to click on Drudge Report tweets, a top right-leaning news aggregator, a spokesman for the congressman told the Washington Examiner that he is seeing a message saying that they are blocked due to potentially “sensitive content.”
While such warnings of “sensitive content” placed over tweets from Drudge Report can be bypassed by unchecking a box Twitter’s “Privacy and Safety” section, the spokesman explained that the congressman is drawing attention to the extra hoop users are required to jump through to access the tweets.
Twitter did not return a request for comment about why Drudge Report tweets are censored.
In March, Nunes asked his followers on Twitter to retweet his message about censorship if they had seen the same warning messages about the Drudge Report on their Twitter feed. That tweet was retweeted 13,000 times.
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