US Home Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the chief executives of a number of the tech trade’s greatest firms as Republicans on the committee press considerations over content material moderation and free-speech points.

The letters (PDF) demand that Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella give up paperwork associated to communications between the businesses and the Biden administration. Republican lawmakers have accused the businesses of colluding to suppress conservative voices on their platforms, a declare the businesses have denied.   

“To develop efficient laws, such because the potential enactment of recent statutory limits on the manager department’s capacity to work with massive tech to limit the circulation of content material and deplatform customers, the Committee on the Judiciary should first perceive how and to what extent the manager department coerced and colluded with firms and different intermediaries to censor speech,” stated Jordan’s letters to the CEOs.

Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, grew to become chairman of the Judiciary committee final month after the GOP took management of the Home, a place that features the ability to problem subpoenas. Jordan’s letters positioned a March 23 deadline for the businesses to show over the paperwork.

Jordan urged within the letters Wednesday that Twitter CEO Elon Musk was exempted from the subpoenas as a result of the corporate “lately set a benchmark for a way clear Massive Tech firms might be about interactions with authorities over censorship” by its launch of the interior communications dubbed the Twitter Information, which mentioned the platform’s choice to restrict the attain of a New York Submit article about President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, forward of the 2020 election.

A Microsoft spokesperson stated it had “began producing paperwork, are engaged with the committee, and dedicated to working in good religion.”

Neither Alphabet, Apple nor Fb instantly responded to a request for remark.