Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Reddit have been locked up by the Committee Choose Congress who investigated the January 6rd rebellion at Capitol A.S. In a statement, the committee said the company’s response has so far been “inadequate “The two main questions for certain committees are how to spread the wrong information and extremism contributed to violent attacks on our democracy, and what steps – if there are social media companies to prevent their platform from breeding the community to commit violence,” Bennie Committee Chair Seat Thompson (D-MS) said.
“Very disappointing that after months of engagement, we still don’t have the documents and information needed to answer these basic questions. The Select Committee is working to get answers to Americans and help ensure unlike what happens on January 6 again . We cannot allow our important work to be delayed further The Committee is looking for various records related to the activities of users on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit, as well as internal documents about the January 6 company handling. As a provision of this new subpoenas, all companies have been given a January 27 deadline to reverse documents to the committee In a letter aimed at Mark Zuckerberg, Thompson discussed Facebook’s handling of the “Stop thief” movement held on the platform. Internal memo detailed how Facebook failed to recognize the dangers posed by groups until after violence on January 6. The letter also referred to the testimony of Whistleblower Frances Haugen, who told Congress last year that Facebook dissolved the civil integrity team after the election.
In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Thompson said that the Select Committee “believed the alphabet had a significantly disclosed information that was important for its investigation, regarding how the alphabet was developed, implemented, and reviewed moderated content, algorithms, demonetization, and other policies It might affect the events of January 6, 2021. “He noted that some rioters immediately drew attack on YouTube and the wrong information about the selection spread on the platform” to this day Letter Thompson to recently installed the CEO of Twitter Parag Agrawal noted that Jack Dorsey testified that Twitter had played a role in the event on January 6. “Twitter has failed to fully adhere to or even commit to the timeline to adhere to the request of certain committees for internal analysis of internal companies, disinformations, and makinformation related to the 2020 election, efforts to challenge or use the election, and the use of Twitter, and its use by extremists domestic violence or The influence of fifting foreigners to influence the 2020 election, “Thompson wrote.
For reddit, the committee seems to be mainly related to sigigeddit r / the_donald, which is prohibited from June 2020, as well as r / donaldtrump, which starts from the platform on January 8, 2021. The letter notes that the community r / the_donald migrates to thedonald.win, where there is “A large number of online discussions and planning” related to rebellion A Twitter spokesman refused to comment on the Pups. Representatives for Meta, Reddit and Google do not immediately respond to requests for comments.
