Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita will investigate whether Big Tech companies have harmed his state by censoring conservative viewpoints.
The probe will focus on whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter have “limited consumers’ access to certain content — often deleting or obscuring posted material reflecting a politically conservative point of view,” according to a press release announcing the investigation on Wednesday.
Rokita said such censorship could prevent consumers from making informed choices.
“In a free society, few assets are more important to consumers than access to information and the opportunity to express political viewpoints in meaningful forums,” Rokita said. “It is potentially harmful and unfair for these companies to manipulate content in ways they do not publicly discuss or that consumers do not fully understand.”
Rokita is also investigating whether liberal attorney Vanita Gupta, who is a nominee to be associate U.S. attorney general, encouraged the companies to censor conservative viewpoints.
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Rokita said that Gupta has met with Facebook and Twitter executives to urge “more rigorous rules and enforcement” and has advocated for social media platforms more aggressively “tagging things and taking them down.”
