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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is set to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow regarding the company’s censorship practices, here’s what you need to know ahead of the hearing.

The Wall Street Journal published an article recently outlining the efforts Twitter has made to crack down on “bad actors” on its platform, including the personal involvement of CEO Jack Dorsey in deciding who gets blacklisted.

A White House petition demanding legislation for the First Amendment to be extended to digital public squares has reached 100,000 signatures.

Twitter has begun blocking certain conservative accounts from being featured in the platform’s “Twitter Moments” section. Accounts affected include Candace Owens, Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv, and the official account of Vice President Mike Pence.

Apart from building the wall, President Trump’s most important act as president so far was his attack on internet censorship this week.

A recent survey from big tech workplace discussion app Blind shows that 61 percent of employees at major tech firms agree that Twitter should join the rest of Silicon Valley in blacklisting Infowars host Alex Jones. The notable exception is Twitter employees themselves.

Twitter has announced that following their suspension of 284 accounts for engaging in “coordinated manipulation,” the site has banned a further 486 accounts for sharing “divisive commentary,” including many based in the United States.

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on September 5 regarding his company’s censorship practices.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, who would likely become Speaker of the House if Democrats win the midterms this November, called the censorship of conservatives on social media an “outrageous conspiracy theory” earlier this week. 

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted during an interview on Saturday that his company holds a “left-leaning” bias, but claims that the company’s enforcement of its rules if fair and not based on ideology.

Sunday during an interview with CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said his bias was “more left-leaning.” Dorsey said, “We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is left,

Sunday during an interview with CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said his company does not discriminate against any political viewpoint. When asked about so-called “shadow-banning,” Dorsey said, “I think the real question behind the question is, are

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is reportedly considering a subpoena to get Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify about the embattled social media platform’s policies.

Social media platform Twitter has begun banning a large number of accounts from the website, specifically focusing on accounts that have previously been banned or have received suspensions.

Twitter has verified the account of recent New York Times editorial board hire Sarah Jeong, despite the fact that her wide variety of racist posts remains on the platform.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey performed an interview with NBC News recently where he discussed the issues his platform faces surrounding “election security” and the presence of Infowars host Alex Jones on the website.

Twitter has suspended Infowars host Alex Jones for seven days following a live broadcast in which Jones told his followers to prepare their “battle rifles” to defend themselves. The stream ironically was discussing social media censorship.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey declared during his appearance on Sean Hannity’s radio show this week that Twitter sanctions users for their offline behavior too. This is nothing new — Breitbart News reported on the new rules in November 2017.

Dorsey promised more transparency over bans and suspensions, but continued to deny “shadowbanning” users.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended the company’s decision not to ban Alex Jones and Infowars’ accounts following a purge of Infowars accounts across Big Tech including Facebook, Spotify, Apple podcasts, and Microsoft’s LinkedIn. Dorsey says that Jones “hasn’t violated our rules,” and admitting “We’ve been terrible at explaining our decisions.”

The mainstream media is attempting to pressure Twitter into banning InfoWars and Alex Jones after it successfully lobbied Facebook, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify into doing so.

GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify in front of Congress on the topic of shadowbanning and censorship on social media.

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of social media platform Twitter, stated in a recent interview that he understands why conservatives may be distrustful of Silicon Valley tech companies.

Thousands of Kenyan Twitter users have left the website for the free speech social media platform Gab following the suspension of a popular Kenyan blogger.

One sentence after denying shadowbans, Twitter admits it is going much further in this discriminatory practice than many of us imagined.

Following recent reports from both conservative and left-wing media relating to the phenomenon of the shadowbanning of conservatives on its platform, Twitter has published a response which attempts to redefine exactly what shadowbanning is.

Twitter’s sinister push to improve “conversational health” creates a feedback loop that rewards bogus “abuse” reports.

Ronna McDaniel says Twitter ignored a letter expressing concerns about social media censorship.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced this week he will end the equality on Twitter that angers the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.

A Twitter spokeswoman said the company is working to fix Matt Gaetz’s search results.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stated in a recent tweet that artificial intelligence may soon be used to determine “credible voices” on the social media platform.

Hollywood actor Seth Rogen has accused Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of protecting white supremacists using verification on the social media platform.

What kind of warped, debased person do you need to be to go around wishing cancer recurrence on someone recovering from cancer?

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, told Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to “die of boils,” for the second time, following his suspension and reinstatement on Twitter for graphically wishing death upon a Trump supporter.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was in the communist island of Cuba, Thursday, prompting him to come under fire from users of the platform.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly shared nearly 20 tweets from “Russian trolls,” retweeting posts from an account which posed as an African-American woman multiple times.