{"id":2003839,"date":"2023-08-17T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:05:48","slug":"doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ and FBI subpoenaed for social media censorship data."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdoj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records-2%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=2003839&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\u200c Committee Chairman Subpoenas DOJ and FBI for Documents \u2063on Alleged Censorship<\/h2>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee\u2062 Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has taken \u2063action by subpoenaing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI for documents related \u200dto allegations of collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a> to censor\u2064 First Amendment-protected content. \u2062This includes the controversial Hunter Biden laptop story from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In letters accompanying the subpoenas, obtained by the \u2063Washington Examiner, Jordan addressed Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher\u200d Wray. He emphasized that these documents are crucial for the\u200b committee&#8217;s investigation into the extent \u200bof\u2063 coercion and collusion between the\u200c Executive Branch and companies \u200dto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-cant-solve-our-cancel-culture-problem\/\" title=\"Government Can\u2019t Solve our Cancel Culture Problem\">suppress free speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Request\u200c for \u2063Internal Documents and Communications<\/h3>\n<p>Chairman \u2064Jordan requested that both the DOJ and FBI provide all internal documents and communications regarding the moderation, suppression, or removal of content on private platforms. He set a deadline\u200c of \u200dSeptember 15 for the delivery\u200c of these materials.<\/p>\n<p>In April,\u200b Jordan had previously\u2064 sent letters to Garland and Wray,\u2063 making \u200cbroad\u2063 requests for records related to censorship practices. He\u200b referred to the &#8220;Twitter files,&#8221; \u2062which revealed FBI engagement \u200cwith Twitter (now known as X) regarding the\u2064 New York Post&#8217;s \u2064story\u200c implicating Joe Biden in his son Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing\u2063 dissatisfaction with the response so far, Jordan\u2062 highlighted that\u200c the DOJ and FBI \u2062had only produced a \u2063single\u2063 document, which he deemed &#8220;woefully inadequate.&#8221; He \u200dpointed out that\u200c this \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records-2\/\" title=\"DOJ and FBI subpoenaed for social media censorship data.\">document omitted\u2063 significant responsive material<\/a>, such as\u2062 communications between the DOJ and \u200btech companies, internal communications, \u200band communications with other executive \u200dbranch entities.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Implications and Judge&#8217;s\u200b Ruling<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan drew attention to the lawsuit Missouri v. Biden, where U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-fbi-subpoenaed-for-social-media-censorship-records\/\" title=\"DOJ and FBI subpoenaed for social media 'censorship' data.\">preliminary injunction ordering<\/a> the Biden administration to halt certain censorship-related communications with social media companies during the ongoing lawsuit.\u200c The \u200druling revealed numerous interactions involving the FBI \u2064and social\u200b media companies, with the DOJ and FBI \u2063named as defendants in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the \u200dsignificance of the judge&#8217;s ruling, Jordan wrote,\u2064 &#8220;A federal judge has found that \u200dthe communications of various executive branch entities with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a>, \u2062including \u2064the Department of Justice, \u200dvery likely violated Americans&#8217; First Amendment\u2062 rights. Yet you have produced nothing of substance in response to the Committee&#8217;s request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has \u2062reached out to the DOJ for comment.<\/p>\n<p>For more \u2062information, you can read copies of the letters below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice and FBI, seeking documents on allegations of collaboration with social media firms to censor First Amendment-protected content. The request includes information on the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election. Jordan conveyed his demands in letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2003840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2003839","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}