{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://comer.house.gov/2022/9/congressman-comer-press", "Congressman Comer Presses Facebook on Censorship of Biden Family Allegations", "2022-09-01", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "House", "KY", "James Comer", "C001108", "comer.house.gov", "comer", "https://comer.house.gov/media", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), along with Republican lawmakers on both panels, today are pressing Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook\u2019s suppression of the allegations about the Biden family before the 2020 election. During a recent podcast, Zuckerberg admitted Facebook reduced the circulation of the New York Post\u2019s explosive story about the contents of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop following guidance from the FBI. The Republican lawmakers are seeking all documents and communications between Facebook, the FBI, and the Democratic National Committee about the Post\u2019s reporting on the Biden family.\n\n\u201cRecently, you described how Facebook\u2019s censorship of the allegations about the Biden family before the 2020 election followed a message from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Facebook \u2018should be on high alert\u2019 for \u2018Russian propaganda.\u2019 You acknowledged that this official alert from the FBI is what led to Facebook reducing the circulation of the Post\u2019s reporting on its platform, preventing Americans from fully understanding highly relevant allegations about President Biden\u2019s awareness of and involvement in his family\u2019s influence-peddling scheme. Accordingly, we write to request additional information about Facebook\u2019s actions to interfere in free and fair election-related public discourse,\u201dwrote the Republican lawmakers.\n\n\u201cWe have seen in recent months how some in government have sought to use Big Tech to censor divergent viewpoints and silence opposing political speech. Government-driven and Big Tech-implemented censorship suppresses freedom of speech and free thought online in ways that harm public discourse. Facebook\u2019s suppression of the Post article\u2014and allegations of Biden family corruption highly relevant to the 2020 presidential election\u2014following guidance from the FBI is highly troubling,\u201d continued the Republican lawmakers.\n\nThe letter to Mark Zuckerberg can be found here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://comer.house.gov/2022/9/congressman-comer-press"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6086469404399395, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}