I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's Wednesday, February 8th, and this is your morning wire afternoon update.

Congress held its first hearing on Twitter's alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints

on Wednesday, several former high-level executives testified, including former head of trust

and safety at Twitter, Yul Roth, as well as legal counsel Bajay Agade and Jim Baker.

The hearing centered around Twitter's decision to censor the New York Post's 2020 story

about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell.

In 2020, Twitter noticed activity related to the laptop that at first glance, or a lot

of similarities to the 2016 Russian Hack and Leak operation, targeting the DNC.

And we have to decide what to do.

And in that moment, with limited information, Twitter made a mistake.

Did the U.S. government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain

tweets?

Yes or no?

We received legal demands to remove content from the platform, from the U.S. government

and governments all around the world.

U.S. intelligence has reportedly linked the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down this

past weekend to a vast surveillance program being conducted by the Chinese military against

numerous foreign nations.

According to a Washington Post report, the balloon surveillance program has targeted military

assets in several rival countries, including Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines.

The Alex Murdoch double murder trial of his wife and son was brought to an abrupt halt

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