Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is on Stanford University’s case for its refusal to provide documents about its involvement in censorship. The Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) ran two programs that flagged online “misinformation;” the Virality Project (VP) and the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP).
In a letter sent last week, addressed to Stanford’s legal team, Jordan said that the university provided insufficient documents in response to a subpoena sent in April requesting documents related to the SIO’s involvement in the censorship of “disfavored speech.”
Jordan gave the university until June 14 or else the committee will “be forced to consider the use of one or more enforcement mechanisms.”