Jordan demands DOJ, Big Tech CEOS provide docs on alleged censorship collusion

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday wrote to the FBI, Department of Justice, and the CEOs of several major Big Tech companies, demanding that they provide materials documenting the Biden administration's contact with social media companies.

Jordan sent letters to the CEOs of Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent company), Apple, Meta (the parent of Instagram and Facebook), Microsoft, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Amid an ongoing lawsuit over the government's coordination with social media platforms, the FBI confirmed in March that its Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) had resumed contact with major social media companies, Jordan indicated in a press release.

"Given the FITF’s improper role in communicating with social media and technology companies during the 2020 presidential election, the resumption of meetings between the FITF and Big Tech before the 2024 presidential election is deeply troubling," he wrote in the letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. 

He further asked that Alphabet produce a bevy of documents outlining communications with the FITF or the San Francisco Field Office of the FBI. Jordan made similar demands of the other firms and government agencies, highlighting that the requested materials were covered by a subpoena from last year that he said was "continuing in nature."

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month in a challenge from the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general to the administration's efforts to pressure social media companies to censor disfavored opinions on COVID-19. The justices have not yet issued a ruling.

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