The House of Representatives is looking for censorship after Joe Rogan, Steve Bannon. “

The Judicial Committee in the House of Representatives learned on Tuesday an investigation into Spotify due to fears that the music and broadcasting platform may control freedom of expression.

The oversight was a tension point for Spotify, which faced a hot violent reaction to inform Covid-19 information from PodCaster Joe RoGan and Banning Steve Bannon from the platform.

A source familiar with the probe told The Post: “More important, is the pressure that we see that the European Union puts companies on censorship more,” a source familiar with the probe told The Post.

In a letter sent to the CEO of Spotify Daniel EK, US MP Jim Jordan (R-OHIO) criticized the recent laws of the European Union and the United Kingdom that require social media platforms-even those taken by the United States-monitoring “misleading information”, “harmful content” or facing huge fines.

Jordan wrote in a copy of the letter obtained by the publication: “These laws, regulations and foreign judicial orders may limit the arrival of the Americans constitutionally protected in the United States. In fact, it seems that this is the purpose of this.”

The Spotify Committee ordered the preservation of documents and all contact with foreign governments, as well as individuals associated with the White House, and to provide this information to the House of Representatives by August 12, according to a message obtained by the post.

Spotify found herself stuck in the midst of controversy in 2022 about Rogan’s comments on Covid-19-including allegations that Evermctin can treat the disease.

Clinical experience data Not Evermctin is effective in treating Covid-19 in humans, according to the FDA.

Angry critics accused Spotify of allowing the spread of wrong and musical information Neil Young pulled his music From the platform in protest.

The company pledged Include Covid-19 content After a group of medical scientists and professionals signed an open letter calling for “taking action against comprehensive information events.”

At that time, the press secretary during the Biden era Jin Psaki called it a positive step, “ But he added that the White House wants to do “more.”

Rogan recalled the chaos during an episode of his presentation last month – and linked that Two of the former presidents who have not been named participated In the protests against its discussion of the epidemic.

Spotify also banned the “War Chamber” in Bannon in 2020 after Anthony Fushi and former FBI director Christopher Ray threatened, calling for Trump to put their “heads on Pikes”.

the Podcast returned to Spotify Last month after a five -year suspension.

While Spotify is located in Stockholm, Sweden, it has a large presence among American users, as well as New York offices at the World Trade Center.

Along with pressure at home, aggressive foreign laws that punishable online platforms for “misinformation” can force companies like Spotify to monitor content for all users, including those in the United States, which are a violation of freedom of expression.

In the letter, the Chairman of the Board of Directors nodded in an accident in August 2024, when Terry Bretton, who was at the time responsible for the implementation of the European Union’s content laws, was. Caution and its owner Elon Musk It may need to monitor the content to prevent “possible indirect operations in the European Union.”

Although the social media platform is based in Texas, its content-in this case, is a vivid interview with the then-elected president, Donald Trump-is also available to European Union users, which makes him subject to the European Union regulations.

Bretton called on musk to make sure that “all the appropriate and effective mitigation measures are placed in place regarding the amplification of harmful content.”

There are many European Union laws along with huge fines, such as the Digital Services Law, which allows fines that amount to 6 % of the global revenue for the platform-which can translate into billions of dollars for social media customer operations such as Meta.

X pushed back against some of these orders, and even won a victory earlier this month over the Australian government.

The online safety committee in Australia has ordered the prevention of the period after the bombing of government officials in favor of transgendering, or a fine cough of $ 520,000.

Likewise, the Meta Mark Zuckerberg coach retracted the content restrictions, and announced in January – before Trump took office – that directly – that – that Facebook has done a lot of censorship.

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have canceled the fact -inspection policies and the content rate, and chose the “community notes” form from the public sources similar to Moussa on X.