New report from the US Judiciary Commission exposes Facebook, Amazon and Google

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Armamentization of the US Federal Government released an interim staff report titled “The Censorship Industrial Complex: How Top Officials in the Biden White House Coerced Big Tech Companies to Censor Americans, True Information, and Critics of the Biden Administration.”

The report details the Biden White House’s multi-month campaign to coerce large companies, namely Facebook, Google It is Amazon The censor books, videos, posts and other online content. By the end of 2021, Facebook, YouTube and Amazon had changed their content moderation policies in ways that directly responded to criticism from the Biden Administration.

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After reviewing tens of thousands of non-public emails and documents between the Biden White House and Big Tech Companies, the Committee’s report reveals:

• Big Tech Companies Changed Their Content Moderation Policies Because of the Biden White House;

• The Biden White House’s censorship targeted truthful information, satire, and other content that did not violate the platforms’ policies;

• The Biden White House’s censorship campaign has had a chilling effect on other forms of expression;

• The White House had leverage because companies had other political concerns involving the Biden Administration;

• The Biden White House has pushed censorship of books, not just social media;

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While the Biden White House’s pressure campaign was largely successful, its effects were devastating. By suppressing free speech and intentionally distorting public debate in the modern square, ideas and policies are no longer fairly tested and debated based on their merits.

The First Amendment prohibits the government from “curtail freedom of expression”. Like this, “any law or government policy that reduces this freedom on platforms [de mídia social]…violates the First Amendment.” To inform potential legislation, the Committee and Select Subcommittee have been investigating Executive Branch collusion with third-party intermediaries to censor speech. The Committee and Select Subcommittee discovered other serious violations of the First Amendment throughout the Executive Branch during the Biden Administration.

Read the team’s full interim report and appendix here.

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