The House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot has subpoenaed the parent companies of Google and Facebook as well as social media companies Twitter Inc. and Reddit Inc., the panel’s chairman said Thursday.
“Two key questions for the Select Committee are how the spread of misinformation and violent extremism contributed to the violent attack on our democracy, and what steps — if any — social media companies took to prevent their platforms from being breeding grounds for radicalizing people to violence,” committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a new release.
Last summer, the select committee demanded a trove of records from Google parent Alphabet Inc.
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Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.
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Reddit and other social media companies but received “inadequate responses” from the largest platforms, according to committee’s release Thursday.
The Jan. 6 committee is seeking records tied to domestic terrorism, the spread of misinformation and efforts to influence or overturn the 2020 election.
