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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked Yuan Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will turn over documents related to Threads’ content review in response to an earlier subpoena related to the panel’s ongoing tech platform policy investigation and contacts with the Biden administration.
The letter, obtained exclusively by CNBC, is an early sign that Meta’s latest offering could bring more attention to the Washington company. Threads competes directly with Twitter, whose owner Elon Musk wants to shape Twitter with what he calls absolutism of free speech, despite sometimes suspending users, including journalists.
While Meta executives have made it clear they don’t want news and politics to dominate the conversation on Threads, it’s a large portion of the discussions that users have historically visited on Twitter. The more things happen on Threads, the more likely it becomes a political focus.
“In fact, Threads raises serious, specific concerns because it is billed as an Elon competitor
Musk’s tweets come under Biden administration’s witch hunt
“Musk’s commitment to free speech,” Jordan wrote, pointing to a Wall Street Journal Article The FTC has asked Twitter to turn over internal communications about Musk and to identify journalists with access to the company’s records as part of an investigation into whether Twitter still adequately protects consumer information, the investigation found.
“By contrast, reports that Threads will enforce ‘Instagram’s Community Guidelines’ have led to restrictions on legitimate speech under government pressure,” Jordan wrote. He pointed to recent lawsuits filed against the Biden administration by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, alleging that the federal government has suppressed speech through efforts to get social media platforms to address what it deems harmful posts related to the Covid-19 pandemic. For example, or elections.
On July 4, a federal judge in Louisiana partially approved the preliminary injunction The lawsuit barred several Biden administration officials from meeting with social media companies to encourage them to remove or remove posts. It also prevents those officials from even flagging certain types of social media posts to companies to encourage their deletion or suppression.
After the ruling, the State Department canceled regular meetings with Facebook on the 2024 election and the threat of hacking, a Facebook person said. Washington post.On Friday, the Court of Appeals allowed the appeal pause Under the preliminary injunction, that means the government can resume flagging social media posts until the case is further heard in court.
Jordan wrote that the committee issued a subpoena on February 15, which was sent to amazon, apple, Googleyuan and Microsoft, “persistent in nature”, which means it also works with Threads, although it was introduced recently. He said the new letter is a formal notice to preserve existing and future related documents on Threads, and asked Meta to provide documents related to the Threads content review and discussions with the Biden administration by the end of the month.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read the letter from House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg:
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