The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, led by Representative Jim Jordan, has issued subpoenas to 16 tech companies involved in artificial intelligence to probe allegations that the Biden administration pressured private firms to moderate content, curb "harmful bias,"
The subpoenas, sent to major players including Adobe, Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, IBM, Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability AI, request any and all communications—both internal and with third parties—relating to the moderation, deletion, suppression, or restriction of content across AI models. The requested documents cover a five-year span from January 1, 2020, to January 20, 2025.
According to the committee, the investigation aims to determine whether the previous administration’s executive order on algorithmic discrimination influenced tech companies’ practices in ways that amounted to censorship of AI content. Representative Jordan contends that these measures were part of an effort to limit speech, an allegation he has raised repeatedly, having subpoenaed Google over similar concerns just last week.
The scope of the inquiry is notably broad, extending even to companies that do not primarily operate speech platforms, such as Adobe and Nvidia. Jordan and his colleagues are seeking to connect what they describe as distant dots—alleged governmental pressures from the Biden era with subsequent moderation decisions made by private companies.
Tech companies have not yet commented on the subpoenas. As the committee digs into five years’ worth of emails, memos, and other communications, it remains to be seen how far the alleged pressure reached and what impact it may have had on the deployment and management of AI systems.
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