Jordan Seeks Threads Documents Over Suspected Censorship
Meta needs to provide the House Judiciary Committee with any communication the company had with the executive branch concerning content moderation on its new platform Threads, Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday. Jordan extended the…
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scope of his Feb. 15 subpoena requesting any communications with the administration regarding the company’s content moderation practices. Since the subpoena, the committee has received additional evidence that the federal government “coerced or colluded” with tech companies to moderate content, said Jordan. He noted a federal court’s July 4 decision to block administration officials from communicating with tech companies over moderation decisions on First Amendment grounds (see 2307120065). The subpoena is “continuing in nature, and the instructions and definitions accompanying the subpoena make clear that documents and information related to Threads ... are within the scope of the subpoena,” wrote Jordan. Meta didn’t comment.