Jordan Subpoenas Former Biden Officials Over Allegations of Pressuring Social Media Companies to Censor Online Speech
• House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan invited 3 former Biden admin officials to a May 1 hearing on pressuring companies to censor online content.
• Jordan subpoenaed Rob Flaherty and Andy Slavitt last year but they did not appear; no contempt charges filed yet.
• Documents show Flaherty played a central role in communicating censorship efforts to social media companies.
• Internal Facebook documents reveal Flaherty threatened executives to censor speech critical of Biden admin.
• Supreme Court weighing whether Biden admin violated 1st Amendment by pressuring platforms like Facebook to remove posts and videos.