House Judiciary subpoenas big tech, seeking content moderation info
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The U.S. House's new pressure on big tech rolls on, as House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed five giants pressing for information on content moderation.
Jordan has reached out to CEOs Mark Zuckerberg of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META); Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (GOOGL); Satya Nadella of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT); Tim Cook of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL); and Andy Jassy of Amazon.com (AMZN).
A notable exception is Twitter, now under the ownership/management of Elon Musk and seen as more conservative-friendly, the WSJ noted.
The committee is asking for documents and communications by a March 23 deadline showing any communication between them and the federal executive branch tied to moderation, deletion, and/or suppression of content.
Jordan has been among those Republicans with longtime claims that the tech platforms are limiting the reach of conservative viewpoints.
Content moderation became a political hot potato in Texas last year, as a state law restricting moderation at large social-media platforms was temporarily blocked by a divided U.S. Supreme Court before later being upheld by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.