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Mr. Andrew Torba

Chief Executive Officer

Gab

700 N. State Street

Clark Summit, PA 18411

Dear Mr. Torba:

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is

examining the facts, circumstances, and causes of the attack and relating to the peaceful transfer

of power, in order to identify and evaluate lessons learned and to recommend corrective laws,

policies, procedures, rules, or regulations.

Pursuant to the purposes and functions set forth in House Resolution 503, the Select Committee

requests that you produce the documents described in the attached schedule in your custody,

control, or possession. Please produce this information to the Select Committee no later than

September 9, 2021. An attachment to this letter provides additional instructions for responding to

the Select Committee’s request.

If you have questions, please contact Select Committee investigative staff at 202-225-7800.

Sincerely,

_____

Bennie G. Thompson

Chairman

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SCHEDULE

The Select Committee requests the following documents and information since April 1, 2020,

unless otherwise specified:

1. All internal or external reviews, studies, reports, data, analyses, and related

communications regarding your platform(s) and:

i. Misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation relating to the 2020

election;1

ii. Efforts to overturn, challenge, or otherwise interfere with the 2020

election or the certification of electoral college results;

iii. Domestic violent extremists, including racially or ethnically motivated

violent extremists, militia violent extremists, sovereign citizen violent

extremists, QAnon, or other extremists associated with efforts to overturn

the 2020 election, including the January 6, 2021, attack, attacks against

other State capitols, and attempted attacks against the January 20, 2021

inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.;2 and

iv. Foreign malign influence in the 2020 election, including known or

suspected coordination between foreign and/or domestic influences to

interfere in the 2020 elections, or cause domestic unrest.

1. All internal or external reviews, studies, reports, data, analyses, and related

communications regarding how your platform’s/platforms’ algorithms might

contribute to any of the factors described in request 1 above.

1. Any modifications and/or changes to policies or algorithms intended to address the

items detailed in requests 1 and 2.

1. Any modifications or changes recommended or considered, but not implemented,

intended to address the items detailed in requests 1 and 2.

1. All accounts, users, groups, events, messaging forums, marketplaces, posts, or other

user-generated content that was sanctioned, suspended, removed, throttled,

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deprioritized, labeled, suppressed, or banned from your platform(s) related to any of

the items detailed in request 1(i)-(iv) above.

1. All protocols and analyses in place prior to January 6, 2021, to identify, report,

sanction, suspend, remove, throttle, deprioritize, label, suppress, or ban any of the

items detailed in request 1(i)-(iv) above, and any changes implemented to those

protocols, analyses, or algorithms since January 6, 2021.

1. All accounts, users, groups, events, messaging forums, marketplaces, posts, or other

user-generated content referred, shared with, or provided to law enforcement or other

State, local, or Federal Government officials or agencies regarding any of the items

detailed in request 1(i)-(iv) above, and the basis for such action.

1. All requests by law enforcement or other Federal, State, or local government officials

or agencies for information relating to any of the items detailed in request 1(i)-(iv)

above, and the basis for such requests.

1. All other communications with law enforcement or other Federal, State, or local

government officials or agencies relating to any of the items detailed in request 1(i)-

(iv) above.

1. All protocols in place prior to January 6, 2021, for notifying or otherwise sharing

information with law enforcement or other Federal, State, or local government

officials or agencies of violent or dangerous content, and any changes implemented

after January 6, 2021.

1. Internal communications, reports, documents, or other materials relating to internal

employee concerns about content on the platform associated with any of the items

detailed in request 1(i)-(iv) above.

1. All document retention policies in place on January 6, 2021, including policies for

communications by the company or its employees and retention policies for user-

generated content.

1. All document retention or preservation holds implemented related to the events of

January 6, 2021, or any related litigation or investigation.

1. A copy of all documents produced to any party as part of litigation or internal or

external investigation related to the events of January 6, 2021.

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Responding to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United

States Capitol’s Document Requests

1. In complying with this request, produce all responsive documents, regardless of

classification level, that are in your possession, custody, or control, whether held by

you or your past or present agents, employees, and representatives acting on your

behalf. Produce all documents that you have a legal right to obtain, that you have a

right to copy, or to which you have access, as well as documents that you have

placed in the temporary possession, custody, or control of any third party.

1. Requested documents, and all documents reasonably related to the requested

documents, should not be destroyed, altered, removed, transferred, or otherwise

made inaccessible to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on

the United States Capitol (“Committee’).

1. In the event that any entity, organization, or individual denoted in this request is or

has been known by any name other than that herein denoted, the request shall be

read also to include that alternative identification.

1. The Committee’s preference is to receive documents in a protected

electronic form (i.e., password protected CD, memory stick, thumb drive, or

secure file transfer) in lieu of paper productions. With specific reference to

classified material, you will coordinate with the Committee’s Security

Officer to arrange for the appropriate transfer of such information to the

Committee. This includes but is not necessarily limited to: a) identifying

the classification level of the responsive document(s); and b) coordinating

for the appropriate transfer of any classified responsive document(s).

1. Electronic document productions should be prepared according to the

following standards:

a. If the production is completed through a series of multiple partial

productions, field names and file order in all load files should match.

b. All electronic documents produced to the Committee should include the

following fields of metadata specific to each document, and no

modifications should be made to the original metadata:

BEGDOC, ENDDOC, TEXT, BEGATTACH, ENDATTACH,

PAGECOUNT, CUSTODIAN, RECORDTYPE, DATE, TIME,

SENTDATE, SENTTIME, BEGINDATE, BEGINTIME, ENDDATE,

ENDTIME, AUTHOR, FROM, CC, TO, BCC, SUBJECT, TITLE,

FILENAME, FILEEXT, FILESIZE, DATECREATED, TIMECREATED,

DATELASTMOD, TIMELASTMOD, INTMSGID, INTMSGHEADER,

NATIVELINK, INTFILPATH, EXCEPTION, BEGATTACH.

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1. Documents produced to the Committee should include an index describing the

contents of the production. To the extent more than one CD, hard drive, memory

stick, thumb drive, zip file, box, or folder is produced, each should contain an

index describing its contents.

1. Documents produced in response to this request shall be produced together with

copies of file labels, dividers, or identifying markers with which they were

associated when the request was served.

1. When you produce documents, you should identify the paragraph(s) or request(s)

in the Committee’s letter to which the documents respond.

1. The fact that any other person or entity also possesses non-identical or identical

copies of the same documents shall not be a basis to withhold any information.

1. The pendency of or potential for litigation shall not be a basis to

withhold any information.

1. In accordance with 5 U.S.C.§ 552(d), the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

and any statutory exemptions to FOIA shall not be a basis for withholding any

information.

1. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552a(b)(9), the Privacy Act shall not be a basis for

withholding information.

1. If compliance with the request cannot be made in full by the specified return date,

compliance shall be made to the extent possible by that date. An explanation of

why full compliance is not possible shall be provided along with any partial

production, as well as a date certain as to when full production will be satisfied.

1. In the event that a document is withheld on any basis, provide a log containing the

following information concerning any such document: (a) the reason it is being

withheld, including, if applicable, the privilege asserted; (b) the type of document;

(c) the general subject matter; (d) the date, author, addressee, and any other

recipient(s); (e) the relationship of the author and addressee to each other; and (f)

the basis for the withholding.

1. If any document responsive to this request was, but no longer is, in your

possession, custody, or control, identify the document (by date, author, subject,

and recipients), and explain the circumstances under which the document ceased

to be in your possession, custody, or control. Additionally, identify where the

responsive document can now be found including name, location, and contact

information of the entity or entities now in possession of the responsive

document(s).

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1. If a date or other descriptive detail set forth in this request referring to a document

is inaccurate, but the actual date or other descriptive detail is known to you or is

otherwise apparent from the context of the request, produce all documents that

would be responsive as if the date or other descriptive detail were correct.

1. This request is continuing in nature and applies to any newly-discovered

information. Any record, document, compilation of data, or information not

produced because it has not been located or discovered by the return date shall be

produced immediately upon subsequent location or discovery.

1. All documents shall be Bates-stamped sequentially and produced sequentially.

1. Upon completion of the production, submit a written certification, signed by you or

your counsel, stating that: (1) a diligent search has been completed of all

documents in your possession, custody, or control that reasonably could contain

responsive documents; and

(2) all documents located during the search that are responsive have been produced

to the Committee.

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Democratic rep from Mississippi

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