Present to testify were high-ranking company personnel who oversaw Twitter during the covid panic and in the early days of the Hunter Biden laptop controversy. Specifically, they were former employees Yoel Roth, Anika Collier Navaroli, and Vijaya Gadde. All three had titles with words like "trust" and "safety" in them. There was also James Baker, a former Twitter attorney and a former FBI agent who promoted the now-disproven "Russiagate" theory. It was clear from their testimony that all four saw themselves as righteous arbiters of truth and that anyone who disagreed with their views was guilty of "misinformation." Conveniently, this "misinformation" overwhelmingly tended to coincide with these employees' personal political views.

In practice, however, these keepers of "trust" and "safety" did not function as disinterested fact-checkers, journalists, or stewards of any kind. They certainly weren't entrepreneurs focused on delivering the highest value for their owners. Rather, they were acting as extensions of the US administrative state, the FBI, and the Democratic Party.

This became clear as they admitted to banning certain articles on their corporation's platform and "shadow banning" countless stories. They did this either at the explicit urging of federal officials or in a way that just happened to support the regime's preferred positions and policies. Moreover, it's clear that these Twitter agents were happy to do this. (But explicit pressure from the regime would certainly not be anything new. It is now well documented that the Roosevelt administration heavily pressured the press and Hollywood to support US entry into World War II.)