{"id":1413857,"date":"2022-03-31T19:15:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413857"},"modified":"2022-03-31T19:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:15:26","slug":"house-judiciary-republicans-investigating-facebook-and-twitter-for-suppressing-hunter-biden-laptop-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-judiciary-republicans-investigating-facebook-and-twitter-for-suppressing-hunter-biden-laptop-news\/","title":{"rendered":"House Judiciary Republicans Investigating Facebook and Twitter for Suppressing Hunter Biden Laptop News"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-judiciary-republicans-investigating-facebook-and-twitter-for-suppressing-hunter-biden-laptop-news%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413857&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Thursday announced the launch of an investigation into Facebook and Twitter over their suppression before the 2020 presidential election of <em>New York Post<\/em> reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop that contained emails exposing questionable business deals with foreigners that would benefit the Biden family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Tech, Big Democrat Party, and Big Media all colluded to keep critical information from the American people in the run-up to the most important election we have, the presidential election, so we\u2019re launching an investigation,\u201d said Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) Thursday on Fox Business.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wjnCvSIFxj\">pic.twitter.com\/wjnCvSIFxj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1509523289462423555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In light of the establishment media\u2019s recent admission that the emails are authentic, Judiciary Republicans sent letters to\u00a0Facebook\u2019s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. Judiciary Republicans requested they produce all documents and communications beginning October 1, 2020, through the present, on efforts to suppress the dissemination of the <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s reporting, as well as efforts to fact-check the reporting.<\/p>\n<p>They also requested all documents and communications in that time frame between or among any employee or contractor of Facebook and any individual affiliated with the Biden campaign or the Democrat National Committee, anyone from another social media company, or anyone from a media organization referring or relating to Facebook\u2019s decision to reduce the dissemination of the reporting.<\/p>\n<p>They also requested all documents and communications in that time frame referring or relating to Facebook\u2019s decision to report or not report its actions to the Federal Election Commission \u201cas an in-kind contribution to the Biden campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally they asked which employees made the decision to reduce\u00a0the dissemination of the <em>New York Post<\/em> reporting on its platform, and asked for an explanation of how suppressing the reporting is \u201cnot a publisher function\u201d for the purposes of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In a letter to Zuckerberg, they wrote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although the Post article concerned a topic of importance to many voters in the run-up to the election, Facebook still censored it. Soon after the Post published its article, Facebook\u2019s Policy Communications Director, a former staffer for Democrat elected officials, announced that Facebook was \u2018reducing its distribution on our platform.\u2019 Facebook presumably did this because \u201dit s[aw] \u2018signals&#8217;\u201d that the Post story was \u2018false.\u2019 As far as we know, Facebook has never identified or explained these \u2018signals.\u2019 Instead, Facebook announced that the article would be \u2018eligible to be fact checked by [the company\u2019s] third-party fact checking partners\u2019; however, Facebook has never revealed the results of this fact-check, or even whether it occurred.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a similar letter to Agrawal, they wrote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although the Post article concerned a topic of importance to many voters in the run-up to the election, Twitter still censored it. Twitter locked the Post\u2019s account, blocked users from sharing the link to the article, and even labeled the material \u2018unsafe\u2019 for users. Twitter also censored the official House Judiciary Committee website, where we reposted the article so the public could access it without Twitter\u2019s interference. Although Twitter\u2019s former CEO admitted that Twitter\u2019s censorship actions were \u2018wrong,\u2019 Twitter continues to censor political speech in a manner that suppresses conservative voices.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawmakers wrote to both companies that they \u201cknowingly and deliberately used its platform to control election-related information accessible to the American people shortly before the 2020 election,\u201d and \u201cdid so to the primary benefit of then-[former] Vice President Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their actions \u201chelped shield Vice President Biden from increased scrutiny about the impropriety detailed in the Post article,\u201d they wrote. Their \u201cactions also gave rise to other news outlets, tech platforms, and even Biden himself dismissing the Post story as disinformation or untrue\u2014when, in fact, it had never been rebutted,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis irresponsible conduct demands a thorough investigation so that we may understand how Big Tech wields its enormous power over the free flow of information to the detriment of free and fair elections,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers asked for the documents and information no later than April 14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Thursday announced the launch of an investigation into Facebook and Twitter over their suppression before the 2020 presidential election of New York Post reporting on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}