Chairman Jordan Requests Transcribed Interviews from Yoel Roth ... - House Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) just sent letters to Yoel Roth, former Head of Trust & Safety at Twitter, and Chris Krebs, former Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), requesting transcribed interviews related to the Committee’s ongoing censorship investigation.

Excerpts of the letter to Yoel Roth:

“The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech. We believe that you are uniquely positioned to aid the Committee’s oversight, as you served as Twitter’s Head of Trust & Safety until 2022. Accordingly, as part of the Committee’s constitutional oversight obligations, we write to request that you appear for a transcribed interview with the Committee.

“The Committee’s investigation, along with other public reporting, and publicized discovery in an ongoing federal court case, Missouri v. Biden, have exposed how the federal government has pressured and colluded with Big Tech and other intermediaries to censor certain viewpoints on social and other media in ways that undermine First Amendment principles. As has been well-documented, during your tenure as Head of Trust & Safety, you met with various federal agencies on numerous occasions regarding issues that are relevant to the Committee’s investigation.”

Excerpts of the letter to Chris Krebs:

“The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech. We believe that you are uniquely positioned to aid the Committee’s oversight, as you served as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which, under your leadership, participated in efforts to unconstitutionally monitor and censor Americans’ speech on social media platforms. Accordingly, we request that you appear for a transcribed interview with Committee staff.”