House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan subpoenas big tech CEOs over user speech
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House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan on Wednesday issued subpoenas to top executives at the biggest tech firms as Republicans on the committee express concerns over restrictions of users' speech.
The subpoena letters demand that Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella turn over all documents the committee is requesting by March 23. Jordan and other House Republicans want to analyze communications between the Biden administration and the top tech companies to determine whether they censored legitimate speech, particularly on subjects like COVID-19 policy.
CBS News has reviewed copies of the subpoenas, which demand communications between or among each company and the executive branch "referring or relating to the moderation, deletion, suppression, restriction, or reduced circulation of content," as well as documents related to those topics.
