Rep. Jim Jordan , the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released new documents Thursday in a thread on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, detailing messages among employees at Meta describing pressure from White House officials to remove specific posts from the platform.The files were released hours before the House Judiciary Committee was to vote on an amendment holding Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt for failing to provide documents related to censorship.
In another April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, informed his team at Facebook that Andy Slavitt, a Senior Advisor to President Biden, was “outraged . . . that [Facebook] did not remove” a particular post. pic.twitter.com/5muflAQjcx Slavitt's pressure seemed to leave an impression, causing Brian Rice, Facebook's vice president of public policy, to argue that his remarks felt"very much like a crossroads for us in the White House in these early days."