Jim Jordan demands information on possible FBI censorship of Biden influence peddling story

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanding information about a tool that the bureau allegedly uses to monitor and help censor Americans' social media posts.

In particular, Jordan raised concerns about possible "prebunking [of] a true story concerning the Biden family’s influence peddling ahead of the 2020 presidential election."

Jordan highlighted testimony from an FBI Criminal Investigative Division Analyst previously assigned to the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), who claimed the task force was allegedly coordinating with social media companies leading up to the 2024 election to "monitor and flag social media posts, by both American citizens and foreign actors, 'indicative of potential criminal conduct.'"

The FBI allegedly used software tools to search open-source databases for the social media posts.

"Although the analyst testified that the FBI uses this tool to pursue 'criminal conduct,' when questioned about the nature of the software tool and the scope of the FBI’s use of it, agency counsel repeatedly prevented the analyst from fully answering the Committee’s questions," Jordan wrote. "Therefore, we write to obtain additional information in order to understand whether the FBI has or could use this software tool to censor or infringe upon lawful speech, particularly Americans’ political speech."

The chairman requested a briefing on the agency's use of the tools by Nov. 26.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.