Jordan Publishes ‘Facebook Files’ Showing Biden Admin Collusion To Censor Americans

In a lengthy Twitter thread, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) published never-before-seen emails from within Facebook showing that the Biden administration had been pressuring the social media giant to censor Americans.

While Meta, Facebook’s parent company, initially resisted the House Judiciary Committee subpoena of internal communications about White House pressure, the company has finally handed over the documents after the committee scheduled a vote to hold CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress.

“Only after the Committee announced its intention to hold Mark Zuckerberg in contempt did Facebook produce ANY internal documents to the Committee, including these documents, which PROVE that government pressure was directly responsible for censorship on Facebook,” Jordan tweeted, noting that “contempt is still on the table and WILL be used if Facebook fails to cooperate in FULL.”

The documents, many of which were shared in the lengthy Twitter thread by Jordan, reveal details about the Biden administration’s pressure campaign against Facebook to suppress Americans’ First Amendment rights to express opinions contrary to the establishment narrative.

“In April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: ‘We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House to remove posts,’” Jordan shared in the first tweet.

“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,” the second tweet revealed.

The specific post that the Biden adviser demanded be removed from Facebook was just a meme mocking the COVID vaccine, joking that there would be a commercial in the future similar to others about being “entitled to compensation” for taking a medication.

“When Clegg ‘countered that removing content like that would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the US,’ Slavitt disregarded the warning and the First Amendment,” another tweet in Jordan’s thread read.

“What happened next? Facebook panicked,” Jordan’s thread continued. “In another April 2021 email, Brian Rice, Facebook’s VP of public policy, raised the concern that Slavitt’s challenge felt ‘very much like a crossroads for us with the [Biden] White House in these early days.’”

Jordan went on to write that “Facebook wanted to repair its relationship with the White House to avoid adverse action,” quoting an email from a Facebook employee that read: “Given what is at stake here, it would also be a good idea if we could regroup and take stock of where we are in our relations with the [White House], and our internal methods too.”

The Biden administration also reportedly demanded that Facebook censor a video clip of Tucker Carlson’s since-canceled Fox News show. Jordan noted that Facebook was “ready to tell the White House that it had demoted a video posted by Tucker Carlson by 50% in response to the White House’s demands, even though the post didn’t violate any policies.”