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<dc:title>117 HRES 1476 RH: 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.</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2022-12-16</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">IV</distribution-code><calendar display="yes">House Calendar No. 168</calendar><congress display="yes">117th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">2d Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. RES. 1476</legis-num><associated-doc role="report" display="yes">[Report No. 117–648]</associated-doc><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20221116">November 16, 2022</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="C001116">Mr. Clyde</sponsor> submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HIF00">Committee on Energy and Commerce</committee-name></action-desc></action><action display="yes"><action-date date="20221216">December 16, 2022</action-date><action-desc>Reported adversely from the <committee-name committee-id="HIF00">Committee on Energy and Commerce</committee-name>, referred to the House Calendar, and ordered to be printed</action-desc></action><legis-type>RESOLUTION</legis-type><official-title display="yes">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.</official-title></form><resolution-body style="OLC" id="HBDF0350A82B34CA2A2674262C87DF61C"><section id="H09D748F234BF45B39EA80F8040FA3689" display-inline="yes-display-inline" section-type="undesignated-section"><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 <quote>cloud</quote> storage), either generated or received by the office of the President, that refer or relate to—</text><paragraph id="H5DFA95C7B78F4ABC928B15B5C99D6981"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Election Integrity Partnership, including Federal grants to the Election Integrity Partnership or its consortium members;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H56BBE919CDD3418DAC358CBCBF0F821A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>efforts to censor information, including purported misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H65ACDD5F894A4B189FFB2E66C9902AB4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>attempts to do <quote>fact-checks</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HA445B43F8A1A447FB0FDD70C2C8512C7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>procedures to create <quote>tickets</quote> with social media companies or flag incidents or emerging narratives to be assessed by social media companies; </text></paragraph><paragraph id="H3AFBCF0C08624AC8AD2CC3D0639C8E86"><enum>(5)</enum><text>implementation of resilience efforts to counter election misinformation;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H04DBFB97CFE540E7BA7E3DE505E597BC"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H03E192862DCF4F5EAB2839CF6D6F9E36"><enum>(7)</enum><text>the removal, throttling, and labeling of content;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HA374B824F8B64F278FD4D6D0CFE4859E"><enum>(8)</enum><text>flagged URLs, including the labeling, removal, or soft-blocking of such URLs;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H7622263226114C05A303DAFFC7620F21"><enum>(9)</enum><text>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;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H03CB060D7AED481F834DE64AB85652E2"><enum>(10)</enum><text>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;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H1273C1F87C31429CB8B9F092B0D72909"><enum>(11)</enum><text><quote>Platform interventions</quote> in response to <quote>delegitimization of election results</quote>, ballot-counting machines, COVID–19, or COVID–19 vaccines;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H881AC739368347B386B7C65593297A55"><enum>(12)</enum><text>communications on <quote>misinformation</quote> or <quote>disinformation</quote> concerning individual Facebook, Twitter, and Instragram users, including Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk, Mark Levin, Tom Fitton, and Alex Berenson;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9E61FDEE02404F72A1EE77C9ACDAA5DA"><enum>(13)</enum><text>content moderation;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB7ACE218D123494C87C0FDE8B2189082"><enum>(14)</enum><text><quote>Far-right influencers</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC67DB72801C64018AFB6D58AA03693B3"><enum>(15)</enum><text>National Science Foundation grants to Stanford and University of Washington to, among other things, <quote>study ways to apply collaborative, rapid-response research to mitigate online disinformation</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H2E0B5B74035F48C9BEF3265CDB06ED52"><enum>(16)</enum><text>incident reports for tweets and retweets;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H4D99A43F2B254E58AC84556CAEF15C52"><enum>(17)</enum><text>spreading misinformation and disinformation on Hunter Biden or White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB991A3B89806469D83ABB6F3B5C8600E"><enum>(18)</enum><text><quote>repeat spreaders</quote> of election <quote>misinformation</quote>.</text></paragraph></section></resolution-body><endorsement display="yes"><action-date date="20221216">December 16, 2022</action-date><action-desc>Reported adversely from the <committee-name committee-id="HIF00">Committee on Energy and Commerce</committee-name>, referred to the House Calendar, and ordered to be printed</action-desc></endorsement></resolution> 

