Republicans in the House of Representatives grilled three former Twitter executives over the alleged censorship of news about Hunter Biden on Wednesday, as the party makes good on its pledge to investigate the US president’s son.
周三，美国众议院共和党人责问了三位Twitter前高管，原因是据称该平台曾对亨特•拜登(Hunter Biden)的新闻进行审查。该党正在兑现调查美国总统之子的承诺。
In a tense hearing before the House oversight committee, the former Twitter executives admitted that the company had “erred” in blocking news stories in 2020 from The New York Post about the content of a laptop belonging to Biden, which was found at a Delaware repair shop.
在众议院监督委员会举行的一场紧张的听证会上，这些前Twitter高管承认，该公司“犯了错误”，在2020年屏蔽了《纽约邮报》(New York Post)关于拜登笔记本电脑内容的新闻报道，这是在特拉华州的一家修理店发现的。
However, the executives denied repeated accusations from Republican lawmakers that their actions were taken due to pressure from US intelligence agencies or otherwise politically motivated.
然而，这些高管否认了共和党议员的多次指控，即他们的行动是出于美国情报机构的压力或其他政治动机。
It is the first public hearing to focus on the son of US president Joe Biden since Republicans took control of the House in November, and comes as they and Democrats remain at loggerheads over the extent to which social media platforms should police their content. Republicans have long accused Big Tech companies of deliberately suppressing conservative voices.
这是自去年11月共和党控制众议院以来，首次聚焦美国总统乔•拜登(Joe Biden)之子的公开听证会。目前，共和党和民主党在社交媒体平台应在多大程度上监管内容的问题上仍存在分歧。共和党人长期以来一直指责大型科技公司故意压制保守派的声音。