{"id":1216485,"date":"2022-01-14T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216485"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:04:31","slug":"january-6th-committee-subpoenas-google-twitter-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/january-6th-committee-subpoenas-google-twitter-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"January 6th Committee Subpoenas Google, Twitter, Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjanuary-6th-committee-subpoenas-google-twitter-facebook%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Panel will investigate whether big tech platforms were &#8216;breeding grounds for radicalizing&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-944440756.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GettyImages-944440756.jpg 485w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GettyImages-944440756-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 January 14, 2022 1:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/select-committee-subpoenas-social-media-companies-records-related-january-6th\">subpoenaed<\/a> Twitter, Facebook, and other big tech companies in an effort to determine how rioters coordinated on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack also subpoenaed Reddit and Alphabet, Google&#8217;s parent company. In a letter, the committee said it was investigating &#8220;what steps\u2014if any\u2014social media companies took to prevent their platforms from being breeding grounds for radicalizing people to violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter named Facebook, now called Meta, and YouTube, an Alphabet subsidiary, as particularly negligent. But it said all four companies subpoenaed were &#8220;unwilling to commit to voluntarily and expeditiously&#8221; cooperating with the committee. The committee also said &#8220;Twitter has failed to disclose critical information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 riots, several big tech platforms cut off access to conservative social media site Parler, blaming it for hosting the planning of the riot. But recent investigations found many of the rioters organized on large platforms like Facebook. Some rioters live-streamed their entrances to the Capitol on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The subpoena follows an August 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/27\/congressional-committee-investigating-jan-6-insurrection-demands-records-from-facebook-twitter-and-other-tech-giants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">request<\/a> for relevant documents to 15 social media platforms, including several pro-Trump forums. Twitter, Facebook, and Google have become flashpoints on Capitol Hill after Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/facebook-whistleblower-calls-for-more-regulation-of-social-media-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whistleblower<\/a> Frances Haugen leaked a trove of internal documents. Haugen testified to Senate Democrats that Facebook &#8220;cannot adequately identify dangerous content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some conservatives worry the Jan. 6th committee may use the subpoenas to crack down on free speech on major tech platforms. All four companies subpoenaed have restricted conservative users on their sites. Twitter and Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/social-media-companies-suppressed-claims-of-kyle-rittenhouses-innocence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suppressed<\/a> claims of Kyle Rittenhouse&#8217;s innocence and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/poll-majority-of-americans-say-big-tech-censorship-of-hunter-laptop-story-interfered-with-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censored<\/a> stories about Hunter Biden in the months before the 2020 election. The committee says it is working to address &#8220;the spread of false information&#8221; on social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Recent moves by congressional Democrats have exacerbated conservative worries about government overreach in tech. House Democrats have called for legislation that would <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/emotional-injury-democrats-press-to-broaden-liability-for-social-media-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">punish<\/a> tech platforms for user posts that cause &#8220;emotional injury&#8221; to other users. Senate Democrats have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-push-racial-equity-audits-to-cement-control-of-tech-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> &#8220;racial equity audits&#8221; from their close friends as another tool to control the behavior of social media companies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Panel will investigate whether big tech platforms were &#8216;breeding grounds for radicalizing&#8217;  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg \/ Getty Images  Santi Ruiz \u2022 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}