Congress Wants to Know if Twitter is Blocking Vice President Harris

I write to bring to your attention a serious and time-sensitive censorship issue occurring on the social media platform X. Numerous users have recently reported being blocked from following Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign handle @KamalaHQ in the past two days, following the news that President Biden will not seek re-election and that he has endorsed Vice President Harris as a candidate for President. As you know, Vice President Harris is now a bona fide candidate for President of the United States in the 2024 elections.  Regardless of political ideology, Americans have a protected interest in receiving Vice President Harris’ communications regarding her candidacy. Vice President Harris, in turn, has a right to communicate with the American people as she runs for the highest office in the country. Alarmingly, numerous users on X have reported that when they try to follow @KamalaHQ, they receive a “Limit reached” error message, stating that the user is “unable to follow more people at this time.” The Committee should immediately launch an investigation and request at a minimum the following information from X:

1. A precise explanation of the cause for why certain accounts, including the users who have been included as exemplars to this letter, were blocked from following Vice President Harris’ handle @KamalaHQ from July 21, 2024, through the present.  
2. The total number of users who attempted to follow @KamalaHQ from July 21, 2024, to present, but were unable to due technical or other reasons.  
3. What specific actions have been taken to address these issues, if any, and the timeline for when each remedial action was taken.  
4. Whether CEO Elon Musk was personally involved in directing, encouraging, or coercing any employee at X to throttle or limit any user from joining @KamalaHQ.