Jordan Accuses Threads Of Censoring Right Wingers

The Hill reports:

House Republicans asked Meta Monday about content moderation on its new platform Threads, citing concerns about free speech violations. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to send documents about Threads’ content moderation practices to the committee by the end of July. Jordan cited a subpoena sent to Meta in February, which he said now covers material related to Threads.

Jordan wrote that the committee is “concerned about potential First Amendment violations that have occurred or will occur on the Threads platform.” Meanwhile, Democrats have blasted Republicans over their probes of tech platforms’ content moderation practices, and have noted that First Amendment protections allow private companies to take action on content as they choose.

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Is Mark Zuckerberg’s “Threads” already working with the federal government to censor Americans? pic.twitter.com/OdQeq1mCHQ

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 17, 2023