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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 participating 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 “stop 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.
“Within the curiosity of excellent authorities, and to make sure the integrity of the upcoming nationwide election, I’m writing to request info on any info suppression campaigns by which the Administration is at present engaged,” Mace wrote.
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A side-by-side of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and U.S. President Joe Biden. (Getty Photos)
“I urge you to stop and desist any such exercise, and be sure that all staff of the Govt Department chorus from exerting political stress on social media firms to censor content material in accord with White Home preferences.”
Fb founder Zuckerberg wrote to Home Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in late August, alleging that Biden officers “repeatedly pressured our staff for months to censor sure COVID-19 content material, together with humor and satire, and expressed quite a lot of frustration with our groups after we didn’t agree.”
It comes after the Supreme Courtroom 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 firms 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 hyperlink” between the plaintiffs’ accusations and the conduct of presidency officers, in line 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 newest disclosure arrives at a time when the Presidential election contest is moving into full swing—and amid rising considerations of the political affect of social media firms,” she wrote.
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“Troubling revelations of how Fb and Google websites responded to customers looking for info on the July 13, 2024, assassination try of President Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania prompted committee Chairman James Comer to jot down these firms on August 14, 2024 to raised perceive how and why each firms selected to restrict visibility of details about the try on the President’s life.”
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She requested that the White Home flip over any data of communication with social media firms to her subcommittee, in addition to communications between federal staff about such censorship, by Sept. 25.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the White Home for remark.
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White Home urged to ‘stop and desist’ social media ‘suppression campaigns’ after Zuckerberg letter
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