At combative hearing, GOP fans allegations of collusion by government, Big Tech

A congressional hearing Wednesday represented a moment of political reckoning more than two years in the making — and a chance for the House’s new Republican majority to use its investigative powers to embarrass both President Biden and Big Tech, with an assist from their new ally Elon Musk.

The House Oversight Committee grilled three former Twitter executives on the company’s 2020 decision to block users from sharing a controversial New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and the scandalous contents of a laptop that allegedly belonged to him. That decision, which Twitter later reversed, has become the right’s go-to example of what it views as anti-conservative “censorship” by Silicon Valley social media firms — even though the company’s leaders have long since agreed it was a mistake.