Exhibit 1133 · Congressional staff report
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)
[H]e was outraged – not too strong of a word to describe his reaction – that we did not remove this post.
Majority staff report built on subpoenaed internal company emails from Meta, Alphabet and Amazon. It reproduces a Meta executive's April 2021 email describing a call with a White House senior adviser who was 'outraged' that Meta had not removed a post, and states that by the end of 2021 Facebook, YouTube and Amazon changed content-moderation policies 'in ways that were directly responsive to criticism from the Biden Administration'. That last sentence is the Committee's characterization. The report also says that Facebook and Amazon referred to the White House's efforts as 'pressure'.
- Source
- House Committee on the Judiciary and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (majority staff)
- Date
- 1 May 2024
- Quoted from
- Executive Summary, p. 1 (epigraph quoting a Meta email of April 2021)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Biden-WH-Censorship-Report-final.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The epigraph is the Committee's rendering of a Meta internal email produced under subpoena (authentic as a Meta document by its production). The report's appendix PDF (Censorship-Industrial-Complex-WH-Report_Appendix.pdf) was not opened.