Exhibit 1135 · Congressional staff report
The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II: Europe's Decade-Long Campaign to Censor the Global Internet and How It Harms American Speech in the United States (interim staff report)
The European Commission, in a comprehensive decade-long effort, has successfully pressured social media platforms to change their global content moderation rules, thereby directly infringing on Americans’ online speech in the United States.
Second majority staff report, on thousands of internal documents and communications that ten technology companies produced under subpoena. It describes 2020 emails between the European Commission and platforms (Spotify, TikTok) about COVID-19 vaccine content and the Commission's codes of conduct, and states conclusions about a decade of Commission pressure. The conclusions are the Committee's.
- Source
- House Committee on the Judiciary (majority staff)
- Date
- 3 February 2026
- Quoted from
- Executive Summary, p. 1
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2026-02/THE-FOREIGN-CENSORSHIP-THREAT-PART-II-2-3-26.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit