House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has challenged YouTube to clarify if its censorship of a federal whistleblower was a result of federal pressure.
Jordan wrote an Oct. 7 letter to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and YouTube’s parent company Alphabet, according to an X post by the House Judiciary Committee, which Jordan chairs. In the letter, Jordan requested information on why YouTube censored a video featuring an interview with Catholic FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen. Since Allen testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Jordan requested a “briefing on YouTube’s decision to censor the video” and for “communications between YouTube and the Biden-Harris Administration relating to this censorship.”
In the letter, the committee chairman argued that Allen was “wrongly suspended” and “without pay” for his “personal medical decisions, his religious beliefs, and for questioning FBI leadership.”
Allen prayed the rosary and discussed what he went through in an interview with the 501(c)(4) group Catholics for Catholics. “During the interview, Mr. Allen shared how the FBI targeted him for his political and religious beliefs, how the FBI’s retaliation affected him and his family, and how he relied on his faith during the ordeal,” Jordan wrote. “Almost immediately, YouTube censored his story and religious expression.”
Jordan added, “This censorship of religious and political speech is deeply troubling in light of YouTube’s previous collusion with the Biden-Harris Administration and Alphabet’s pattern of anti-conservative political bias.” The FBI subsequently awarded Allen back pay and restored his security clearance after a congressional investigation, the committee chairman noted.
Jordan ended his letter with a series of questions. He asked why the video was censored, how it supposedly violated the platform’s rules, if YouTube has protections for political and religious speech, and if the video will be reinstated. Jordan also specifically asked if the Biden-Harris administration and YouTube communicated about the video at all, and if there are documents illustrating targeted censorship of Marcus Allen.
The FBI was accused of pressuring Big Tech to censor speech in the Twitter Files, including in coordination with Ukrainian intelligence. Furthermore, the FBI was previously exposed for an internal memo labeling Catholics as “potential terrorists.”
MRC’s CensorTrack database records over 600 cases of YouTube censorship.
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