Whereas the United States is founded upon the free exchange of ideas and the ability of all Americans to speak freely; Whereas there have been instances of apparent leftwing bias in Twitter and other California technology companies; Whereas there has been a demonstrated effort by Twitter to obstruct and interfere with President Trump’s ability to get his message through to the American people; Whereas Twitter has followed the lead of some in the biased news media and deemed themselves fact checkers as a smokescreen to lend its political tactics some false credibility; Whereas Twitter had previously agreed to provide a public social media platform free of censorship, but has not upheld its commitment; Whereas a Twitter staffer deactivated the Twitter account of the President of the United States in 2017 without a legitimate reason; Whereas a politically motivated Twitter staffer erroneously claimed that tweets from the President of the United States on May 27, 2020, contained misleading information; Whereas Twitter has improperly applied its new civic integrity policy , which protects the free speech of its users; Whereas Twitter’s new civic integrity policy standard has not been applied consistently across the Twitter platform; Whereas Twitter has continued its historic lack of transparency in its implementation of the civic integrity policy; Whereas the leader of Facebook, another large social media platform, publicly noted that privately owned social media platforms should not act as arbiter[s] of truth ; Whereas, unimpeded by censorship, the President’s political challengers continue to use Twitter to promote their political platform and encourage voter participation while Twitter singles out the President’s account; Whereas the President has more than 80 million Twitter followers; and Whereas the President uses his Twitter account to communicate with the American public and bypass the often biased and discriminating reporting of the many in the news media: Now, therefore, be it