House Republicans Seek Transparency on Meta’s Content Moderation Policy on Threads

House Republicans sent a letter demanding Meta answer if policies on its new Twitter-style platform, Threads, violates free speech.
The letter, which was obtained exclusively by CNBC, is a hint that Meta’s latest product could bring it further scrutiny in Congress.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on July 17 to send over documents about Threads’s content moderation practices by the end of July.
Zuckerberg launched Threads earlier this month as an alternative to Twitter, which has received partisan pushback following owner Elon Musk’s release of internal files that revealed censorship of Americans at the direction of elements within the federal government….}