Election at the behest of the federal government. america witnessed a coordinated campaign by social media companies, mainstream views and the intelligence communities to suppress the exist teence of hunter biden s laptop and its contents. reporter: but twitter officials testifying including james baker pushed back on that narrative. i m aware of no unlawful collusion with or direction from any political campaign on how twitter should have handled the hunter biden laptop situation. reporter: former executives also expressed regret over temporarily suppressing the hunter biden story. i believe twitter erred because we wanted to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2016. reporter: the hearing highlighting the catch 2022 social media platforms after facing criticism for failing to crack down on disinformation, tech companies are back in the hot seat for censorship. i think that you guys got played by the fbi. twitter was basically a