Iran’s Khamenei tweets about questioning the Holocaust; Congress asks Twitter about censorship bias

Iran’s Khamenei tweets about questioning the Holocaust; Congress asks Twitter about censorship bias

Iran’s Khamenei tweets about questioning the Holocaust; Congress asks Twitter about censorship bias

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran questioned why some countries have criminalized Holocaust denial on Wednesday in an uncensored post to Twitter, which is facing scrutiny for how the social media platform has censored posts, like a recent New York Post article on the Biden family’s business and political connections.

“Why is it a crime to raise doubts about the Holocaust?” Khamenei tweeted Wednesday. “Why should anyone who writes about such doubts be imprisoned while insulting the Prophet (pbuh) is allowed?”

Meanwhile, members the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about censorship bias.

Committee Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., asked Dorsey why Khamenei’s tweets “questioning the Holocaust…remain unflagged on Twitter’s platform” despite the platform’s decision to label tweets from President Trump about mail-in ballots and COVID-19 with links to more context.

Dorsey agreed that someone denying the Holocaust would be spreading misinformation but added that Twitter does not “have a policy against misinformation, we have a policy against misinformation in three categories” including manipulating media, specifically coded public health topics like COVID-19, and election interference and voter suppression.

Khamenei’s tweets about the Holocaust, nor his tweets threatening Israel or the U.S., require labels under those qualifications. But Holocaust denial is a crime in several countries, including Germany, Austria and Israel. Holocaust denial is not a crime in the United States, however.

Dorsey later defended Twitter’s stance that Khamenei’s posts are mere “saber-rattling” — a phrase Twitter officials have used to defend its decisions to keep the Iranian supreme leader’s posts visible and unlabeled.

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