Title: Of inquiry requesting the President to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents or records relating to coordination between social media companies and the Biden administration on information, censorship, and censorship meetings in order to suppress or deplatform persons or information the administration views as misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation on COVID-19, Hunter Biden, and elections, and certain documents or records relating to plans to provide grant funding to consortiums, including the Democratic National Committee, in the United States.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This resolution requests the President to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents or records relating to the Election Integrity Partnership and efforts to address purported misinformation or disinformation on social media platforms.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1476 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1476

    Of inquiry requesting the President to provide to the House of 
 Representatives certain documents or records relating to coordination 
    between social media companies and the Biden administration on 
 information, censorship, and censorship meetings in order to suppress 
   or deplatform persons or information the administration views as 
misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation on COVID-19, Hunter 
  Biden, and elections, and certain documents or records relating to 
plans to provide grant funding to consortiums, including the Democratic 
               National Committee, in the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 16, 2022

Mr. Clyde submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Of inquiry requesting the President to provide to the House of 
 Representatives certain documents or records relating to coordination 
    between social media companies and the Biden administration on 
 information, censorship, and censorship meetings in order to suppress 
   or deplatform persons or information the administration views as 
misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation on COVID-19, Hunter 
  Biden, and elections, and certain documents or records relating to 
plans to provide grant funding to consortiums, including the Democratic 
               National Committee, in the United States.

    Resolved, That the President is requested to transmit to the House 
of Representatives, not later than 14 days after the date of the 
adoption of this resolution, in complete and unredacted form, copies of 
all documents or records, including written correspondence and 
memoranda, advisory legal opinions, emails, calendar entries, to-do 
list entries, telephone system records, logs, and transcripts 
(including for cell phones, pagers, landlines, and other electronic 
devices), voicemails, text messages, instant messages, postings on 
social media, blogs, and other internet sites, message board and chat 
room transcripts, audio recordings, captured still images, papers, 
presentations, financial statements, invoices, or financial 
instruments, no matter how stored, including electronically and on any 
and all media or storage devices (including on optical discs, hard 
drives, solid state drives, in portable storage, and in remote or 
``cloud'' storage), either generated or received by the office of the 
President, that refer or relate to--
            (1) the Election Integrity Partnership, including Federal 
        grants to the Election Integrity Partnership or its consortium 
        members;
            (2) efforts to censor information, including purported 
        misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation;
            (3) attempts to do ``fact-checks'';
            (4) procedures to create ``tickets'' with social media 
        companies or flag incidents or emerging narratives to be 
        assessed by social media companies;
            (5) implementation of resilience efforts to counter 
        election misinformation;
            (6) consortium agreements collaboration, or meetings about 
        social media or disinformation, malinformation, or information, 
        with any private entities including the Democratic National 
        Committee, the NAACP, Common Cause, Stanford Internet 
        Observatory, the University of Washington's Center for an 
        Informed Public, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic 
        Research Lab, and social media analytics firm Graphika;
            (7) the removal, throttling, and labeling of content;
            (8) flagged URLs, including the labeling, removal, or soft-
        blocking of such URLs;
            (9) the removal, throttling, or labeling of news and 
        opinion organizations or the content of news and opinion 
        organizations, including the New York Post, Fox News, Just the 
        News, the Washington Times, Gateway Pundit, the Epoch Times, 
        the Associated Press, Breitbart, or SeanHannity.com;
            (10) meetings or discussions regarding misinformation and 
        disinformation with the former Director of the Cybersecurity 
        and Infrastructure Security Agency Christopher Krebs, former 
        Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, Press Secretary 
        Karine Jean-Pierre, Associate Professor at the University of 
        Washington Katie Starbird, Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony 
        Fauci, the Atlantic Council's Emerson Brooking, or Surgeon 
        General Vivek Murthy;
            (11) ``Platform interventions'' in response to 
        ``delegitimization of election results'', ballot-counting 
        machines, COVID-19, or COVID-19 vaccines;
            (12) communications on ``misinformation'' or 
        ``disinformation'' concerning individual Facebook, Twitter, and 
        Instragram users, including Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk, Mark 
        Levin, Tom Fitton, and Alex Berenson;
            (13) content moderation;
            (14) ``Far-right influencers'';
            (15) National Science Foundation grants to Stanford and 
        University of Washington to, among other things, ``study ways 
        to apply collaborative, rapid-response research to mitigate 
        online disinformation'';
            (16) incident reports for tweets and retweets;
            (17) spreading misinformation and disinformation on Hunter 
        Biden or White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; 
        and
            (18) ``repeat spreaders'' of election ``misinformation''.
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