Congress will want to hear from Elon Musk and Twitter — whichever party wins the midterms
WASHINGTON — Which party controls Congress next year could have big implications for Twitter — and its new “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk. Democrats, fighting to keep their House and Senate majorities in next week's midterms, are calling for investigations into Twitter and say they don't trust Musk to police offensive language and election disinformation on the social media platform. Republicans have cheered on Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter as he fired the company’s top executives, brought in his own team, and froze some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation , which the GOP has argued have been used to target and silence conservative voices. But influential Republicans said they also want to get to the bottom of whether there was political bias and censorship at Twitter and other tech companies prior to Musk's takeover. Sen. Ted. Cruz, R-Texas, who is poised to become the top Republican on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said he...