House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to send documents about Threads’s 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.
Threads launched earlier this month as an alternative to Twitter, the text-based platform now under control of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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 the First Amendment allows private companies to take action on content as they choose.
The GOP’s latest request to Meta is an extension of the panel’s investigation into tech platforms’ content moderation policies and how the companies interact with the government, specifically the Biden administration.
Read more in a full report at TheHill.com.
