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The House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter<\/a> to his committee\u2019s chair, Jim Jordan (R-OH), on Thursday, urging him to investigate inaccurate information about the presidential election on X (Twitter). Jordan, a self-proclaimed free speech advocate, has relentlessly pursued<\/a> claims that social platforms have censored conservative voices<\/a>. For a little taste of what Jordan considers censorship, he cried foul when platforms removed bogus COVID conspiracies<\/a> during the height of the pandemic and banned Donald Trump for inciting a mob to storm the US Capitol<\/a> on January 6, 2021.<\/p>\n Nadler cited reports that Grok, X\u2019s AI chatbot, falsely claimed Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris missed deadlines<\/a> in nine states, making her ineligible to appear on their ballots. Harris didn\u2019t miss any deadlines and will appear on all 50 states\u2019 ballots.<\/p>\n In addition, Nadler pointed to reports that Musk\u2019s social platform suspended the group White Dudes for Harris (@dudes4harris) after it hosted an event that raised over $4 million from over 200,000 people for the Vice President\u2019s campaign. The account was barred due to a \u201cuser report\u201d accusing it of \u201cviolating rules against evading suspension,\u201d which was never explained further. After X reinstated the White Dudes account the following day, the same profile was labeled as spam after being falsely accused of \u201cmanipulating the platform,\u201d limiting its reach.<\/p>\n Nadler also mentioned \u201cprominent journalists with left-leaning accounts\u201d finding their X profiles \u201caccidentally\u201d suspended.<\/p>\n \u201cGiven Chairman Jordan\u2019s extensive focus on allegations of censorship on social media this Congress, Ranking Member Nadler urged Chairman Jordan to continue fighting against political discrimination on platforms by investigating this matter,\u201d Nadler\u2019s office wrote in the letter. \u201cChairman Jordan\u2019s silence on this matter follows X\u2019s actions to stop disinformation against Republican officials on its platform that have not been similarly applied to Democratic officials.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn sum, I lack confidence that Mr. Musk (with his self-proclaimed expansive view on free speech) will take the same swift action against false election information about liberals as he does when it targets conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n Musk has seemingly had no issue policing accusations of the censorship of right-wing figures. Nadler\u2019s letter cites the platform\u2019s swift response to false posts claiming to derive from internal X software which stated Musk, Trump and other far-right personalities were exempt from policies banning racial slurs. The account posting the false images was suspended within hours, and they were soon tagged with warning labels about manipulated media. X confirmed that multiple accounts were suspended for sharing the bogus pictures.<\/p>\n Where is the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in this fight? Likely, sitting it out. \u201cThe FEC has consistently dismissed complaints against social media sites where they could show that they were merely enforcing their own moderation rules,\u201d campaign finance lawyer Brett Kappel told<\/a> The Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cThat\u2019s likely to continue to be the case with X even though the company has seriously weakened its own rules.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhile we may have significant disagreement over the degree and extent of content moderation, I hope that we can at least agree that enforcement on a major platform like X should be fair to both sides,\u201d Nadler said. \u201cAt a basic level, a platform\u2019s policies should be applied in an even-handed manner free from political bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n