There were a lot of dramatic moments at the House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Among the most informative was when Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) nailed former head of Twitter Trust and Safety Yoel Roth for Twitter’s contact with the Biden team to suppress tweets. He showed the email contact even as Roth was professing not to remember, yet showing that Roth knew enough to know what random URLs were referencing.

One of the other big concerns among many conservatives over the past few years was being “shadow banned” — where you are still being allowed to tweet but your account isn’t getting the visibility it should be getting and you haven’t been told that your account was being flagged or prevented from being seen by people.

Yet, even though everyone could tell it was happening, Jack Dorsey claimed it wasn’t, multiple times, even testifying that prominent conservatives were not being shadow banned to Congress.

Then Elon Musk came in and showed there was a blacklist with conservatives like Charlie Kirk and Dan Bongino on it. But don’t worry it was called “visibility filtering” not shadow banning, so Jack wasn’t just gaslighting us all.

So, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was questioning Roth on Wednesday about this “visibility filtering” and asked him if it had been applied to elected officials as well. Roth claimed that he didn’t know, looking like a deer caught in the headlights.

Rep. @Jim_Jordan presses Yoel Roth on visibility filters applied to elected officials without their knowledge. pic.twitter.com/XojEtkbGfx

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) February 8, 2023

“It would not surprise me to know that visibility filtering labels had been applied to the accounts of elected officials,” Roth said. Jordan added that this would have been done without the official’s knowledge and Roth said yes, that was Twitter’s practice not to tell people when visibility filters were being applied. Roth said that he couldn’t say “for sure” if filtering had been applied to elected officials.

That’s when Twitter owner Elon Musk finished off his former employee, Roth. George Washington Law professor Jonathan Turley posted about Roth’s comment that it would not surprise him that visibility filters had been applied to elected officials.

Roth says that it would not surprise him if "visibility filters" were placed on the accounts of elected officials without their knowledge.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 8, 2023

Since he placed many of them there himself, he would indeed not be “surprised” lmao

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2023

“Since he placed many of them there himself, he would indeed not be ‘surprised’ lmao,” Musk tweeted.

Whoops, now that’s a mic drop and one has to think he has the receipts now that he has access to everything. So Jim Jordan and members of Congress might want to rerack that question with the evidence, so we know just exactly who was being filtered.