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Exhibit 1141

Testimony of Jack Dorsey (Twitter, Inc.) before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 'Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election'

Exhibit 1141 ยท Congressional testimony (written)

Testimony of Jack Dorsey (Twitter, Inc.) before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 'Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election'

This policy was informed by conversations with the US government about foreign state misinformation and disinformation and the use of hacked materials or materials of dubious origin being used to manipulate the electorate and influence the outcome of an election.

Twitter's own account, made in the Trump administration's last weeks, of why it blocked New York Post links. It says Twitter created its hacked-materials policy in 2018, that the policy 'was informed by conversations with the US government' about foreign state misinformation and the use of hacked materials, that those government warnings 'were also repeated in advance of' the 2018 and 2020 elections, that Twitter enforced the policy against the Post's links and then narrowed the policy after hearing from journalists. The hearing was chaired by Senator Lindsey Graham. Dorsey also testified to the Senate Commerce Committee on 28 October 2020 (Chairman Wicker); that testimony concerns Section 230 and was not used.

Source
Twitter, Inc. (written testimony to a Republican-chaired Senate committee)
Date
17 November 2020
Quoted from
Testimony, p. 2
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/dorsey-testimonypdf
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-4.4
Primary record Twitter's chief executive told the Senate Judiciary Committee on 17 November 2020 that Twitter's 2018 hacked-materials policy was informed by conversations with the U.S. government. Twitter's head of Site Integrity stated in a declaration to the Federal Election Commission that Twitter's Trust and Safety leadership decided on 14 October 2020 to enforce the policy against the New York Post articles.