The admission comes pursuant to a subpoena and a committee probe into the company’s working with the Biden administration to shut down conservative voices. To inform legislative reforms to protect Americans’ civil liberties, the Committee must fully understand the extent and nature of the Biden-Harris Administration’s censorship efforts. The committee uncovered information that YouTube directly helped the administration’s “censorship regime,” Jordan added, and the administration “successfully pressured YouTube to censor certain lawful content” that did not trespass the platform’s policies. “Senior” Biden administration and White House officials “conducted repeated and sustained outreach” and “pressed” the company about material that did not violate company policies, Donovan explained:While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non violative user-generated content. Thread: pic.twitter.com/60SsoCK2Yk — Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 23, 2025Twitter FilesYouTube was just one of the Biden administration’s targets for censorship.