1 6 Committee Subpoenas Social Media Records Looking For Efforts To Overturn 2020 Election
The committee issued subpoenas to Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Reddit and Twitter. It issued the subpoenas after the companies provided “inadequate responses” to the committee’s request for documents issued in June 2021. Specifically, the committee wants the companies to turn over information on social media communications about domestic violent extremism, misinformation, efforts to overturn the 2020 election, foreign influence in the 2020 election, as well as the companies’ internal processes to combat such content....