US House committee subpoenas big tech companies to investigate "foreign censorship of American speech"
The committee argues that the measure is necessary to ensure that big tech companies provide documents "without interference from foreign governments."
247 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday (27) that it had subpoenaed eight technology companies to obtain information on possible cases of "foreign censorship of American speech."
The companies summoned are giants Alphabet (Google), Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), TikTok and X, as well as Rumble, a video platform recently blocked in Brazil by order of the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
The committee chairman, Republican Representative Jim Jordan, sent the subpoenas on Wednesday (26), arguing that the measure is necessary to ensure that big tech companies provide documents “without interference from foreign governments”.
The congressman also stated that he intends to send letters to the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the Brazilian Supreme Court to inform them that they will question the companies "to find out what you have been pressuring them to do," he said in an interview with CNBC this Thursday.
