The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee on Thursday issued subpoenas aimed at an advertising initiative partnered with the World Economic Forum that claims to fight against “harmful” content online.

In cover letters obtained by The Daily Wire, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote that the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the group that created it — World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) — may be facilitating coordination by its members in a manner that violates U.S. antitrust law.

“To advance our oversight and inform potential legislation related to these collusive practices, the Committee must understand whether, how, and to what extent GARM and WFA facilitate collusion to prevent certain content from benefiting from advertising dollars and to reduce that content’s presence online,” Jordan wrote to King & Spalding, the law firm representing the collectives.

GARM is a “cross-industry initiative” established in 2019 to “address the challenge of harmful content on digital media platforms and its monetization via advertising,” according to WFA.

The stated ambition of GARM is “to get the digital media ecosystem working together on the shared priorities that will lead to the removal of harmful content from advertiser-supported social media.” The WFA website shows GARM has dozens of members, including Budweiser-owner Anheuser-Busch InBev, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube.

WEF, which critics view as a hub for elites who favor global policies that threaten liberties, boasts on its website how GARM is a partner that is “creating a safe ecosystem.” Yet there has been pushback against companies that censor and demonetize content, particularly by conservatives who believe they are being punished for political reasons.

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