Alphabet (Mother House of YouTube), Meta (Facebook’s), Reddit and Twitter are targeted by these injunctions to appear.
Le Monde with AFP
The American parliamentary committee responsible for lighting on the Capitol’s assault announced, Thursday, January 13, to assign four social networks to testify in their investigation. Alphabet (Mother House of YouTube), Meta (Facebook’s), Reddit and Twitter are targeted by these injunctions to appear.
The Commission, whose role is to establish the responsibility of former President Donald Trump and his entourage in the assault of the Congress by his followers, said that these requests had been launched after “insufficient answers “Of the four groups to previous collaborative requests.
Two questions are particularly involved in the investigators: how the dissemination of false information has contributed to this attack and what measures – if necessary – social networks have taken to prevent their platforms from becoming grounds conducive to radicalization.
“It is disappointing that after months of work, we still have no documents and information needed to answer these fundamental questions,” lamented the President of the Commission, the Democrat Bennie Thompson.
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YouTube, Reddit and Meta denied not collaborating with the Commission, and claimed to work with it to provide the required information.
“We have a strict content prohibition policy that encourages violence or undermine confidence in Youtube or through other Google products,” said Google’s mother, in an answer to The France-Presse agency (AFP). We applied this policy before January 6 and continue to do so today. “
Twitter did not want to respond to the solicitations of AFP. The former favorite social network of Ex-President Trump interests the Commission because of the communications between subscribers “concerning the planning and execution of the assault on the Capitol” which would have taken place on the platform. The social network, ensure investigators, would have been informed of violence risks before January 6th.
YouTube is targeted because of the videos that demonstrators would have broadcast live on the platform during the assault.
“We can not allow our important work to be delayed”, insisted the elected Bennie Thompson, inviting social networks to cooperate. There is an urgency of the Commission at all costs to publish its conclusions before the mid-term elections, in November 2022. If the Democrats lose control of the House at the ballot, it may be dissolved by Republicans.