It turns out that Jim Jordan, as we talked about a couple, uh, uh, weeks ago, maybe even
a couple months ago, Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee, uh, some time ago, sent
letters to fact checkers and misinformation identifiers at colleges, universities, and
think tanks all across the country.
And what he told these people was, Hey, you better send me.
And he actually subpoenaed some of them.
Send me all of your material.
Let me know who is working for you, identify these humans, tell me who's paying you to
do this, and show me your methods for identifying what is and is not misinformation.
Well, this week, two journalists who of course have been subjected to these requests from
Jim Jordan, uh, these unconstitutional requests from Jim Jordan, I must add, uh, because they're
a clear violation of the First Amendment of the United States.
But anyway, two of these journalists, uh, Stephen Lee Meyers and Shira Frankl wrote
in the New York Times that some of these individuals and institutions that are engaging in the
fact checking in the looking for misinformation, they have now been threatened with legal action
by Jim Jordan and his committee.
Let me read you what they wrote.
The House Judiciary Committee, which in January came under Republican Majority Control, has
sent scores of letters and subpoenas to the researchers, only some of which have been
made public.
So we don't even know the extent of what they've sent.
It has threatened legal action against those who have not responded quickly or fully enough.
So it being the House Judiciary Committee under the control of Jim Jordan is now threatening
legal action against these journalists, against these institutions, because they're not turning
over the names of the people involved.
They're not turning over information about funding.
And why does Jim Jordan want all this?
Well, because he says that identifying misinformation is actually silencing conservative voices.
And he says it as so many other Republicans do without a hint of irony.
Like, how dare you call out misinformation?
You have any idea what that does to conservative media?
Yeah.
Do, do you have any idea what you're admitting to?
Because you're admitting that all of conservative media's misinformation.
You're not wrong.
You're totally not wrong.
But I don't know, it seems like it's, it's a very dumb thing that a dumb person would
do to admit it out loud.
But luckily, your base is even dumber than you are.
So they don't pay attention to crap like this, and they're just gonna go along their happy
little lives reading misinformation because they're too stupid to know any better.
And they are like, let's not pussyfoot around it.
They're
Stupid.
These people are stupid.
But anyway, they continue.
In the New York Times piece targets include Stanford, Clemson, and New York universities,
and the University of Washington, the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, and the
National Conference on Citizenship, all nonpartisan, non-governmental organizations in Washington,
the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco.
And Graphica a company that researches disinformation online.
Now republicans also tell us they're doing this not just to protect conservative media,
but because you know, the censorship regime is outta control.
There's no censorship regime.
Even the outlets where these individuals have identified rampant misinformation, they're
still allowed to publish their misinformation.
All these groups are doing is also publishing material that says, Hey, this group said something
that's not true.
But those groups are still publishing the untrue material.
So nobody is being censored at all except for these people that Jim Jordan is now threatening
to take to court because he is the one violating their First Amendment rights.
Who's the real censorship regime now, Jim?
Because I can promise you, it's not the fact checkers, it's the people that are literally
trying to use the power of the federal government to silence journalists.
And that, by the way, Jim, that's what you're doing.