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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, recently tweeted\xa0a lengthy thread\xa0in hopes of exposing Americans to the so-called Facebook Files.\xa0\nUsing all capital letters, Jordan wrote July 27: \u201cTHE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE.\u201d\nJordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also has\xa0tweeted\xa0about\xa0other parts\xa0of the \u201cFacebook Files.\u201d\nAsked by The Daily Signal what the most shocking discovery is so far, Jake Denton, research associate in The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Tech Policy Center, replies that \u201cnone of this really came as a surprise, necessarily.\u201d (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation\u2019s news outlet.)\n\u201cIt\u2019s egregiously obvious they were violating our\xa0First Amendment rights,\u201d Denton says of the Biden administration, adding:\nThere\u2019s this huge interplay collusion between Big Tech and big government, and then a week later, no one\u2019s talking about it. And I think that the shock factor has gone away, because we just keep seeing it happen.\xa0If you\u2019re looking for one element of the [document] drops that kind of stand out from all of them, [it] is the correspondence trying to take down a meme, which kind of just shows you the comedic scale that this has reached, where you have government employees whose daily job is to scroll through Facebook [and] Twitter and critique a meme\u2019s role in the information environment.Mark Zuckerberg heads Meta, parent company of Facebook. Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October, recently renamed it X.\nDenton joins today\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\u201d to discuss the secrets exposed by the \u201cFacebook Files,\u201d why Americans should be concerned, and what the revelations say about the relationship between\xa0social media companies\xa0and the Biden administration.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.