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hookaleft

(938 posts)
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 03:19 PM Aug 2021

Jan. 6 investigators demand records from social media companies

The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking a massive tranche of records from social media companies, on whose platforms many defendants charged in the Capitol attack planned and coordinated their actions.

In a series of letters dated Aug. 26, the Democratic-controlled panel asked the companies, which include Facebook, Google, Twitter, Parler, 4chan, Twitch and TikTok, for all records and documents since April 1, 2020, relating to misinformation around the 2020 election, efforts to overturn the 2020 election, domestic violent extremists associated with efforts to overturn the election and foreign influence in the 2020 election.

The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking a massive tranche of records from social media companies, on whose platforms many defendants charged in the Capitol attack planned and coordinated their actions.

In a series of letters dated Aug. 26, the Democratic-controlled panel asked the companies, which include Facebook, Google, Twitter, Parler, 4chan, Twitch and TikTok, for all records and documents since April 1, 2020, relating to misinformation around the 2020 election, efforts to overturn the 2020 election, domestic violent extremists associated with efforts to overturn the election and foreign influence in the 2020 election.



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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/27/jan-6-investigation-social-media-records-506936

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Jan. 6 investigators demand records from social media companies (Original Post) hookaleft Aug 2021 OP
Congressional Jan. 6 Select committee requests communications involving Texas AG Ken Paxton LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #1
How on earth are they ever going to have sufficient resources to get through all of that? hlthe2b Aug 2021 #2
Ya mean big techs? Or the committee? Justice matters. Aug 2021 #3
the committee... hlthe2b Aug 2021 #4
I'd do it for free... Justice matters. Aug 2021 #5

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,106 posts)
1. Congressional Jan. 6 Select committee requests communications involving Texas AG Ken Paxton
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 03:32 PM
Aug 2021

This will be fun to watch



hlthe2b

(102,214 posts)
2. How on earth are they ever going to have sufficient resources to get through all of that?
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 04:24 PM
Aug 2021

Not that I am questioning doing so, mind you, but???

Justice matters.

(6,925 posts)
3. Ya mean big techs? Or the committee?
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 05:36 PM
Aug 2021
I smell big-teks heads exploding LOL

That will surely teach them where negligent moderation will get them...

Justice matters.

(6,925 posts)
5. I'd do it for free...
Fri Aug 27, 2021, 05:49 PM
Aug 2021
Let's start a volunteering movement.

Bed, breakfast, diner and drinks for compensations.
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