{"id":1925277,"date":"2023-05-05T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jordans-house-panel-takes-aim-at-wef-backed-scheme-to-censor-harmful-online-content\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T01:14:38","slug":"jordans-house-panel-takes-aim-at-wef-backed-scheme-to-censor-harmful-online-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jordans-house-panel-takes-aim-at-wef-backed-scheme-to-censor-harmful-online-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan&#8217;s House Committee targets WEF-supported plan to censor harmful online content."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fjordans-house-panel-takes-aim-at-wef-backed-scheme-to-censor-harmful-online-content%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=1925277&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--><h2>House Judiciary Committee Issues Subpoenas Over Advertising Initiative<\/h2>\n<p>The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee has issued subpoenas aimed at an advertising initiative partnered with the World Economic Forum that claims to fight against \u201charmful\u201d content online. The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the group that created it, the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), may be facilitating coordination by its members in a manner that violates U.S. antitrust law.<\/p>\n<h3>Understanding Collusive Practices<\/h3>\n<p>Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote to King &#038; Spalding, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-high-school-athletes-sue-for-right-to-play-indoor-sports\/\" title=\"Calif. high school athletes sue for right to play indoor sports\">law firm representing<\/a> the collectives, stating that \u201cTo advance our oversight and inform potential legislation related to these collusive practices, the Committee must understand whether, how, and to what extent GARM and WFA facilitate collusion to prevent certain content from benefiting from advertising dollars and to reduce that content\u2019s presence online.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>GARM&#8217;s Ambition<\/h3>\n<p>GARM is a \u201ccross-industry initiative\u201d established in 2019 to \u201caddress the challenge of harmful content on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-issues-new-demands-convict-trump-investigate-military-dont-compare-captiol-attack-to-riot-marred-freedom-summer\/\" title=\"BLM Issues New Demands: \u2018Convict\u2019 Trump, Investigate Military, Don\u2019t Compare Captiol Attack To Riot-Marred \u2018Freedom Summer\u2019\">digital media platforms<\/a> and its monetization via advertising,\u201d according to WFA. The stated ambition of GARM is \u201cto get the digital media ecosystem working together on the shared priorities that will lead to the removal of harmful content from advertiser-supported social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Budweiser-owner Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/li>\n<li>Goldman Sachs<\/li>\n<li>Johnson &#038; Johnson<\/li>\n<li>McDonald\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Meta<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The WFA website shows GARM has dozens of members, including Budweiser-owner Anheuser-Busch InBev, Goldman Sachs, Johnson &#038; Johnson, McDonald\u2019s, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube.<\/p>\n<h3>Pushback Against Censorship<\/h3>\n<p>WEF, which critics view as a hub for elites who favor global policies that threaten liberties, boasts on its website how GARM is a partner that is \u201ccreating a safe ecosystem.\u201d Yet there has been pushback against companies that censor and demonetize content, particularly by conservatives who believe they are being punished for political reasons.<\/p>\n<h3>Subpoenas Issued<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan writes that the House Judiciary Committee has sought documents and communications \u201crelated to how GARM and WFA act to demonetize and eliminate disfavored content online, in addition to other information\u201d ever since March of this year. The subpoenas, addressed to WFA President Raja Rajamannar and Rakowitz, demand records from January 1, 2019 to the present related to GARM, its guidelines, communications among members about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jordans-house-panel-takes-aim-at-wef-backed-scheme-to-censor-harmful-online-content\/\" title=\"Jordan's House Committee targets WEF-supported plan to censor harmful online content.\">targeting \u201cdisfavored content\u201d online including<\/a> with the executive branch of the U.S. government, and \u201cfree speech\u201d considerations. Deadlines are set for May 26.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire has reached out to WFA and King &#038; Spalding for comment, but neither has replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee\u00a0on Thursday issued subpoenas aimed at an advertising initiative partnered with the\u00a0World Economic Forum that claims to fight against \u201charmful\u201d content online. In cover letters obtained by The Daily Wire, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote that the Global Alliance for Responsible Media\u00a0(GARM) and the group that created it \u2014 World Federation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1925278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8524,7468,4384,5589,3653,14491,4464,4025,4841,25960],"class_list":["post-1925277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-harmful","tag-censor","tag-committee","tag-content","tag-house","tag-jordans","tag-online","tag-plan","tag-targets","tag-wef-supported"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925277","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}