FIRST ON FOX: A Home Oversight subcommittee chair is demanding the Biden administration hand over any paperwork detailing efforts to suppress info after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accused the White Home of partaking in censorship final month.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who chairs the Home Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on cybersecurity, urged the White Home to “cease and desist” any such exercise with social media platforms in a letter despatched to President Biden and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
“In the interest of good government, and to ensure the integrity of the upcoming national election, I am writing to request information on any information suppression campaigns in which the Administration is currently engaged,” Mace wrote.
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A side-by-side of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and U.S. President Joe Biden. (Getty Photographs)
“I urge you to cease and desist any such activity, and ensure that all employees of the Executive Branch refrain from exerting political pressure on social media companies to censor content in accord with White House preferences.”
Fb founder Zuckerberg wrote to Home Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in late August, alleging that Biden officers “repeatedly pressured our team for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”
It comes after the Supreme Court docket sided with the Biden administration in a 6-3 choice towards the GOP attorneys common of Missouri and Louisiana, who had accused the White Home of colluding with social media corporations to suppress free speech.
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Rep. Nancy Mace is main the inquiry as subcommittee chair of the Home Oversight Committee’s cybersecurity panel. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for almost all, stated there was no “concrete link” between the plaintiffs’ accusations and the conduct of presidency officers, in keeping with SCOTUS Weblog.
However Republicans, who had lengthy accused Biden allies of making an attempt to censor social media content material with which they disagreed, noticed Zuckerberg’s letter as vindication of these considerations.
Mace identified in her letter that the revelations broke simply over two months earlier than Election Day.
“Mr. Zuckerberg’s latest disclosure arrives at a time when the Presidential election contest is getting into full swing—and amid rising concerns of the political influence of social media companies,” she wrote.
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“Troubling revelations of how Facebook and Google sites responded to users seeking information on the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt of President Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania prompted committee Chairman James Comer to write these companies on August 14, 2024 to better understand how and why both companies chose to limit visibility of information about the attempt on the President’s life.”
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She requested that the White Home flip over any data of communication with social media corporations to her subcommittee, in addition to communications between federal workers about such censorship, by Sept. 25.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the White Home for remark.
