House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan subpoenas Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft for info on alleged collusion with the government to suppress speech
such information voluntarily. Jordan gave the companies a deadline of March 23 to comply with the demands.
"Your response without compulsory process has been woefully inadequate," Jordan wrote in the letters."In contrast to Alphabet, Twitter recently set a benchmark for how transparent Big Tech companies can be about interactions with government over censorship," Jordan wrote, with similar language in the messages to other companies.
"The Twitter Files have exposed how Big Tech and the federal government have worked hand in hand in ways that undermine First Amendment principles. Numerous internal documents from Twitter reflect the weaponization of the federal government's power to censor speech online. It is necessary for Congress to gauge the extent to which this occurred at Alphabet as well."
The Twitter Files are a series of reports by independent journalists selected by Musk to gain access to internal communications at the company and shed light on Twitter's decision-making prior to Musk's ownership. The reports have reviewed topics of particular interest to the political right, like Twitter's decision to block a New York Post story about Hunter Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election, which the company later admitted it
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