Rep. Adam Schiff’s staff pushed Twitter executives to remove a post lampooning then-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden from the platform after it was shared by President Trump, newly released “Twitter Files” show.
The California Democrat’s staff continued to press executives after they refused to remove the parody photograph showing Mr. Biden with his face contorted and tongue sticking out.
Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, rejected the original request to remove the tweet on grounds that it violated Twitter’s manipulated media policy, noting that “any reasonable observer” of the post could determine that it had “humorous intent” and that the photo of Mr.