First appeared on FOX: The chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Crime is demanding that the Biden administration turn over documents detailing its efforts to suppress information after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accused the White House of censorship last month.
Rep. Nancy Mace (D-Lausanne), chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee's cybersecurity subcommittee, urged the White House to “cease and desist” such activity on social media platforms in a letter sent Tuesday to President Biden and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
“In the interest of good government and to ensure the integrity of the upcoming general election, I am writing to request information regarding the Administration's ongoing suppression campaign,” Mace wrote.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Biden (Getty Images)
“I urge you to refrain from any such conduct and I ask all executive branch officials to ensure that they refrain from exerting political pressure on social media companies to censor content in line with the White House's wishes.”
In late August, Facebook founder Zuckerberg wrote a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) alleging that Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured us over the course of several months to censor specific COVID-19-related content, including humor and satire, and expressed significant frustration to our team when we did not comply.”
This came after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on the side of the Biden administration against the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who had accused the White House of conspiring with social media companies to stifle free speech.
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Rep. Nancy Mace is leading the investigation as subchair of the House Oversight Committee's Cybersecurity Committee. (Reuters/Mike Seeger)
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing the majority opinion, said there was no “specific connection” between the plaintiffs' allegations and the actions of government officials. SCOTUS Blog.
But Republicans, who have long accused Biden's supporters of trying to censor social media content that opposes them, saw Zuckerberg's letter as validating those concerns.
Mace noted in his letter that the revelation occurred just two months before Election Day.
“Zuckerberg's latest revelations come as the presidential election battle is in full swing and amid growing concerns about the political influence of social media companies,” she wrote.
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“Following disturbing revelations about how Facebook and Google sites responded to users seeking information about the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, Committee Chairman James Comer wrote the companies on August 14, 2024, requesting a greater understanding of why and how the companies chose to limit the availability of information about the assassination attempt on the President.”
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She called on the White House to turn over to the subcommittee by September 25 all communications with social media companies, as well as communications between federal officials regarding such censorship.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
