‘Hypocrisy at Its Finest’: Twitter Under Fire Over Pelosi Tweet Claiming 2016 Election ‘Hijacked’

- ‘Hypocrisy at Its Finest’: Twitter Under Fire Over Pelosi Tweet Claiming 2016 Election ‘Hijacked’
by Oleg Burunov, https://sputniknews.com/
Last Friday, Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump’s personal account, claiming that his tweets contain a “glorification of violence”, a reference to the 6 January events which saw POTUS supporters breach the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying the election results.
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Netizens have accused Twitter of double standards, reacting angrily to a resurfaced tweet by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from May 2017 and containing claims the 2016 US presidential election “was hijacked”.
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The tweet was posted in the run-up to Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel to investigate allegations of collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign in 2016. The probe found insufficient evidence to substantiate such collusion.
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Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 16, 2017
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