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House Committee on the Judiciary

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-4.3: CISA's head of its misinformation team testified that CISA forwarded election officials' reports about posts to platforms in the 2020 election, and the record differs on whether it did so in 2022. The district court wrote in 2023 that no evidence produced in the case tied the Trump administration to the switchboarding, and a 2025 Senate Commerce majority report dates DHS's election-disinformation task force to March 2018.
  • INF-4.5: Meta (26 August 2024) and Alphabet (23 September 2025) each wrote to the House Judiciary Committee that senior Biden administration officials pressed them in 2021 over COVID-19 content, and each wrote that the company made its own decisions on removal and enforcement.
  • INF-4.10: On 12 August 2024 Commissioner Breton wrote to X's owner that the European Commission would not hesitate to make full use of its toolbox, including interim measures, and on 18 February 2025 the Commission wrote that the Digital Services Act does not regulate speech. The Commission's first non-compliance decision under the Act, against X on 5 December 2025, fined X 120 million euros for blue-checkmark design, its advertising repository and researcher data access, and did not concern the removal of any post.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 1132 26 June 2023. House Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (majority staff): The Weaponization of CISA: How a "Cybersecurity" Agency Colluded with Big Tech and "Disinformation" Partners to Censor Americans (interim staff report)
  • Exhibit 1133 1 May 2024. House Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (majority staff): The Censorship-Industrial Complex: How Top Biden White House Officials Coerced Big Tech to Censor Americans, True Information, and Critics of the Biden Administration (interim staff report)
  • Exhibit 1134 25 July 2025. House Committee on the Judiciary (majority staff): The Foreign Censorship Threat: How the European Union's Digital Services Act Compels Global Censorship and Infringes on American Free Speech (interim staff report, with appendix of exhibits)
  • Exhibit 1135 3 February 2026. House Committee on the Judiciary (majority staff): The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II: Europe's Decade-Long Campaign to Censor the Global Internet and How It Harms American Speech in the United States (interim staff report)
  • Exhibit 1138 26 August 2024. Meta Platforms, Inc.: Letter from Mark Zuckerberg (Meta Platforms) to Chairman Jim Jordan, House Committee on the Judiciary
  • Exhibit 1139 23 September 2025. Alphabet Inc. and YouTube (through counsel): Letter from Daniel F. Donovan (King & Spalding, counsel for Alphabet Inc. and YouTube) to Chairman Jim Jordan, House Committee on the Judiciary
  • Exhibit 1140 30 October 2025. House Committee on the Judiciary, Democratic staff (Ranking Member Jamie Raskin): Letter from Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (House Judiciary Committee Democrats) to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan
  • Exhibit 1155 12 August 2024. European Commission (Commissioner for the Internal Market): Letter from Commissioner Thierry Breton to Elon Musk (X Corp.), 12 August 2024 (Exhibit 16 to the House Judiciary report of 25 July 2025)
  • Exhibit 1156 18 February 2025. European Commission: Letter from Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen to Chairman Jim Jordan, 18 February 2025 (Exhibit 21 to the House Judiciary report of 25 July 2025)