Biden DOJ nominee facing state investigation over role in Big Tech censorship
Vanita Gupta, Biden’s controversial nominee for associate attorney general, is facing a state investigation into her role in Big Tech censorship.
Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee for an associate attorney general role, already faced hurdles after allegations that he family profited off of the Mexican heroin trade.
Now, she is facing a state investigation from the Indiana Attorney General’s office. Gupta has been swept up in an investigation into allegations that Big Tech companies censored criticism of Gupta.
Interestingly, Gupta had recently had conversations with Big Tech corporate leaders -- they are obviously interested in her views on issues, as she could play a role in enforcing or not pushing for regulation of the Big Tech giants.
“Indiana Attorney General has begun investigations into five Big Tech corporations for censorship of conservative content involving Joe Biden’s nominee, Vanita Gupta,” Breitbart reported this week.
“In particular, Attorney General Rokita is probing methods by which the companies have limited consumers’ access to certain content — often deleting or obscuring posted material reflecting a politically conservative point of view,” the Attorney General’s office said in an April 7 news release. “Such manipulation prevents consumers from making informed choices, Attorney General Rokita said.”
The state’s highest law enforcement office noted:
In addition to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, Attorney General Rokita is also investigating alleged actions taken by attorney Vanita Gupta to encourage the companies to censor conservative viewpoints.
Gupta, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee to be associate U.S. attorney general, has allegedly met with Facebook and Twitter executives to urge “more rigorous rules and enforcement,” to use her own words as quoted in Time.
Gupta’s nomination remains stalled.
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