Rep. Darrell Issa at the Capitol. Photo courtesy of his office
The 2020 election is long over, but Rep. Darrell Issa has taken aim at two of California’s largest tech companies, accusing them of preventing scrutiny of President Joe Biden’s family prior to his victory over Donald Trump.
“There’s no question that Big Tech colluded with some of the nation’s most powerful media and most influential Democrat partisans in the intelligence community to suppress the truth, censor fact-based journalism, and shelter the Biden family from political and legal scrutiny,” said Issa, a Republican who represents East County.
“We will ensure that the truth is revealed and that those associated with corruption and collusion are held accountable,” he vowed in a statement.
Issa’s main targets are San Francisco-based Twitter and Menlo Park-based Meta, the parent company of Facebook.
He sent document preservation notices to those companies, and to a number of Biden administration officials and past directors of the CIA.
At issue is whether Twitter and Facebook suppressed social media coverage of an article by Fox News-owner Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing New York Post about the contents of Biden’s son Hunter’s laptop.
The laptop had been left at a repair shop and not claimed. Email found on the laptop was provided to the Post by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The email supposedly revealed shady business dealings in Ukraine prior to Russia’s invasion.
Issa supported Trump in 2016, and after retiring from Congress was nominated by the former president to lead the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. After begin elected again to Congress in a new district, Issa voted with other conservatives against ratifying the 2020 election.