US EditionJim Jordan report accuses EU of censoring American speech through tech companies
- On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Ohio’s Jim Jordan released a 160-page interim report accusing EU regulators of a decade-long campaign to censor global political speech, including content posted by Americans in the U.S.
- The report traces the effort back to around 2015 and notes the Digital Services Act , effective in 2023, as the culmination of European regulation, investigators say.
- Jordan's committee points to subpoenas and internal emails showing ten major technology companies including Meta, Google, TikTok and X revised global policies, with TikTok adjusting guidelines to comply with the DSA.
- High-Profile responses included the EU executive strongly rejecting the report's accusations, with Thomas Regnier saying `Freedom of expression is a fundamental right in Europe`.
- The report warns the pressure extended to electoral contexts, noting Brussels pressured platforms to censor content in EU national elections and the 2024 European Parliament elections, targeting COVID-19 vaccines, the war in Ukraine, and transgender issues.
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House Judiciary Drops ‘EU Censorship Files’ Exposing Massive Effort To Silence American Speech
by Melissa O'Rourke at CDN - A new congressional report details previously unknown facts about the EU’s years-long campaign to influence how social media companies moderate content, pressuring platforms to censor lawful American speech. The House Judiciary Committee report, released Tuesday, relies on nonpublic documents obtained from major technology companies under subpoena. Lawmakers say the records show the European Commission pushed … Click…
US Republicans accuse the EU of ‘decade-long censorship campaign’
In a fresh effort to recast regulation as censorship, a new 160-page report from the US House Judiciary Committee alleges Brussels pressured Big Tech platforms to censor US speech, including around the 2024 presidential elections.
The European Commission rejected the U.S. allegations that Romania's elections would have been influenced by pressure on social networks and that it would have unfoundedly catalogued claims on "censorship" and electronic interference in Member States' national tests.
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