POLITICS_ Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan Ramp Up Pressure On Google Parent Company To Deal With Censorship

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Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan Ramp Up Pressure On Google Parent Company To Deal With Censorship

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Andi Shae Napier
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April 17, 2025 4:59 PM ET


Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan are turning their attention to Google over concerns that the tech giant is censoring users and infringing on Americans’ free speech rights.

Google’s parent company Alphabet, which also owns YouTube, appears to be the GOP’s next Big Tech target. Lawmakers seem to be turning their attention to Alphabet after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta ended its controversial fact-checking program in favor of a Community Notes system similar to the one used by Elon Musk’s X.

Cruz recently informed reporters of his and fellow senators’ plans to protect free speech.

“Stopping online censorship is a major priority for the Commerce Committee,” Cruz said, as reported by Politico. “And we are going to utilize every point of leverage we have to protect free speech online.” (RELATED: ‘Greatest Threat To Free Speech’: Ted Cruz Aims To Take Legal Action Against Big Tech For Censoring Conservative Media)


Following his meeting with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai last month, Cruz told the outlet, “Big Tech censorship was the single most important topic.”

Big Tech is nakedly and brazenly censoring views they dislike.

Right now, Big Tech is censoring right of center views – but they could arbitrarily decide to censor the Left next. It’s profoundly dangerous. pic.twitter.com/8WIfSy1OB7

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 22, 2022

Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent subpoenas to Alphabet and other tech giants such as Rumble, TikTok and Apple in February regarding “compliance with foreign censorship laws, regulations, judicial orders, or other government-initiated efforts” with the intent to discover how foreign governments, or the Biden administration, have limited Americans’ access to free speech.

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 5: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks to media outside a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing with sanctuary city mayors, at the US Capitol, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Graeme Sloan for The Washington Post via Getty Images)


“Throughout the previous Congress, the Committee expressed concern over YouTube’s censorship of conservatives and political speech,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Pichai in March. “To develop effective legislation, such as the possible enactment of new statutory limits on the executive branch’s ability to work with Big Tech to restrict the circulation of content and deplatform users, the Committee must first understand how and to what extent the executive branch coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech.”

Jordan subpoenaed tech CEOs in 2023 as well, including Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Tim Cook of Apple and Pichai, among others.

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