House Judiciary Republicans ask Twitter for answers on content moderation of conservative accounts

Top Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Sensenbrenner, have sent letters to the CEOs of social media platforms Twitter and Parler, as part of the panel's investigation into competition in digital markets.

In their letter to Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, the members seek answers on recent content-moderation decisions made by the social networking site, particularly, as they pertain to a number of tweets by President Trump that have been flagged and tagged for various reasons in the past weeks. 

On June 23, Trump tweeted that he would not allow an "autonomous zone" to be established in the nation's capital, like the one that had been erected in Seattle, Washington.

Twitter censored the tweet claiming that it violatedTwitter’s policy against "abusive behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm against an identifiable group.”