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Republicans Seek WH, Facebook COVID-19 Documents

The White House and Facebook should turn over any documents and communications on coordination about COVID-19 misinformation, House Republicans wrote Thursday. Republicans, including ex-President Donald Trump and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, have raised First Amendment questions about such coordination (see…

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2107080072). House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; Mike Johnson, R-La.; and Dan Bishop, R-N.C., sent letters to the White House and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. They demanded a staff-level briefing from the Biden administration on work with cellphone carriers and Facebook on COVID-19 misinformation on the platform. They requested all documentation and communication between the sides involving coordination. Facebook and the White House didn’t comment.