Documents were released this week showing that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor dissenting voices. 

According to Fox News, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan publicized the documents in a series of tweets on Thursday.

Jordan refers to material as "smoking-gun docs"

The documents were obtained via subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary Committee to Meta, which is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.

"THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE," Jordan declared.

THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE

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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 27, 2023

"Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House," he continued.

White House "outraged" that Facebook did not censor a COVID meme

Jordan explained that "During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House—both publicly and privately—to crack down on alleged 'misinformation.'"

Jordan recalled how "[i]n April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: ‘We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House’ to remove posts."

In another April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, informed his team at Facebook that Andy Slavitt, a Senior Advisor to President Biden, was “outraged . . . that [Facebook] did not remove” a particular post. pic.twitter.com/5muflAQjcx

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 27, 2023

What's more, Jordan pointed to an email from April of 2021 in which a Facebook executive said that a senior Biden administration figure expressed outrage over a COVID vaccine-related meme was not removed from the platform.

What did the Biden White House want removed?

A meme.

That’s right, even memes weren’t spared from the Biden White House’s censorship efforts. pic.twitter.com/6BhDxTHsUi

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 27, 2023

President accused Facebook of "killing people" by not censoring posts

"This wasn’t the first time that the Biden White House was angry that Facebook didn’t censor more," Jordan went on to point out.

Other examples included President Joe Biden having "publicly denounced Facebook and other social media platforms" for 'killing people' by not censoring alleged 'misinformation.'"

Jordan concluded by writing "To be continued" before following up with another Twitter thread on Friday which featured more documents.