Jim Jordan sends Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey letter with copy of Hunter Biden private emails and dares platform to censor tweet containing link

The House Judiciary’s Twitter account shared the five-page document in a two-part tweet that included two emails from Pozharskyi to Biden, one of which asked Biden if he could use his “influence to convey a message” that might curb an investigation into Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky.

“Twitter censored the @nypost’s Hunter Biden story because it contained ‘hacked’ and ‘private’ information,” the first tweet read. “So, @Jim_Jordan sent @jack a letter containing Hunter Biden’s private emails. Will @TwitterSafety censor us?”

Jordan’s letter comes on the same day that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee would subpoena testimony from Dorsey regarding his company’s actions regarding censorship of the New York Post article that had been disabled from being posted or shared on the platform.

Jordan asked Dorsey to clarify a list of concerns he had regarding the censored material, including questions about how the article violated its “Hacked Materials Policy.” The Ohio Republican also wanted to know what factors Twitter considered before censoring the article and an account of the employees who were part of the decision-making process.

Jordan also wanted to know if any of the people who were part of making the decision to censor the dissemination of the article had in any way communicated “with any individual affiliated with the Biden campaign or the Democrat National Committee.”

Jordan provided evidence of previous articles by publications that have investigated Biden’s involvement with the corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, of which he sat on the board even though he held no expertise in the industry.

The House Republican cited a 2019 New York Times article that alleged Biden was “part of a broad effort by Burisma to bring in well-connected Democrats during a period when the company was facing investigations backed not just by domestic Ukrainian forces but by officials in the Obama administration.”

“We urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message / signal, etc. to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions…” read the email that described a list of positive attributes that Burisma offered, including that it employed hundreds of people and produced more than 60% of the gas needs for Ukraine’s biggest metal steel plant Accelor Mital.

In the letter to Dorsey, Jordan included another email that Pozharskyi sent on April 17, 2015, in which he thanked Biden for “inviting me to DC and giving me the opportunity to meet your father.”

“Eight months later, in December 2015, Vice President Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma by threatening to withhold,” wrote Jordan with an attachment to a video in which Joe Biden talked about three years later at an event with the Council on Foreign Relations in January 2018.

Jordan jabbed Twitter officials at the end of the letter, asking if the company “intended to report its actions to the Federal Election Commission as an in-kind contribution to the Biden campaign.”

Facebook followed Twitter’s lead on Wednesday, limiting access to the article on its platform. Facebook policy communications manager representative Andy Stone said the social media giant was “reducing [the article’s] distribution on our platform.”

The Washington Examiner reached out to Twitter but had not received a response regarding Jordan’s letter to Dorsey.