The chairman of the powerfulHouse Oversight Committeeand its National Security Subcommittee said that social media platforms popular with far-right extremists would face a range of threats. I'm looking for answers on what I'm doing for The FBI raided the Florida home of former President Donald Trumpagainstlaw enforcement.
In a letter to her executives at the head of Meta, Twitter, TikTok, far-right platforms Gettr, Rumble, Telegram, Gab, and Trump himself, Truth Social, the Oversight Committee Her chairman, Carolyn Maloney, said: and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Stephen Lynch wrote to inquire about companies' responses to the "surge in online threats to law enforcement." The rise in violent rhetoric follows searches of Trump's home and office in Mar-a-Lago, whose Palm Beach mansion has become a private club that maintains his primary residence.
“The former president and Republican congressman's reckless rhetoric has led to a flurry of violent threats on social media, killing at least one person and endangering law enforcement officers around the world. The United States," they said, adding that they "urged" executives to "take immediate action to address the threat of violence against law enforcement" on their respective platforms.
Ms. Maloney and Mr. Lynch provide an illustrative example of the "flood" of threats facing FBI agents since they executed a legal search warrant at Mr. Trump's home posted on Truth Social. was shot dead by police after attempting to attack an FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio) and Gab (a Pennsylvania man wrote to Gab, "All the s*** , in all capacity... including the former White House aide to President Trump, who posted on Telegram personal information about two agents listed in a warrant to Trump's home.
And two House Democrats said the committee "strongly supports the First Amendment right to speak out on government action and law enforcement issues, including on social media platforms." While emphasizing that "the threat of "fatal violence" is also "unacceptable and against the law," they said.
Maloney went on to say: Mr. and Lynch said the oversight board should consider “how each company responds when a user posts a threat to law enforcement,” and how each company will prevent its platform from being used. It wrote that it was "trying to understand" how it was planning to "incite violence against law enforcement officials."
It asked each executive to answer a series of questions, including how many threats to law enforcement had been identified on the platform and how many of those threats had been removed. How many "related to search warrants executed against the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence, the FBI, or the Department of Homeland Security.
9 Each company must submit a response to the letter by May 2nd.
It is unclear whether Trump and his supporters' most preferred platform executives will comply with the spontaneous demands.
Trump's platform Truth Social is run by his former California congressman Devin Nunes, and Gettr is run by his former presidential campaign aide Jason Miller. We operate.
Alternative His Gab, the oldest of his social media platforms, is owned and operated by his Andrew Torba, a self-proclaimed "Christian his nationalist." Video-streaming site Rumble — a YouTube clone and a frequent destination for those exiled from the Google-owned platform — is a former Secret Service agent and a losing candidate for the Maryland Senate. Partially owned by Dan Bonzino. Weekend show on Fox News.
