Four House Democrats are pressing major social media companies to “disclose the measures they have in place to prevent their services from being exploited to threaten public safety in the days, weeks, and months following” the U.S. election.
“We are living in a time of heightened political violence. Just this year, two attempts were made on the life of former President Donald Trump,” Democrat Reps. Gerald Connolly of Virginia, Lori Trahan of Massachusetts, Sean Casten of Illinois, and Shontel Brown of Ohio wrote to the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and Snap in a letter dated Friday.
“Meanwhile, violence against elected officials has escalated, to include an assault on former Speaker Pelosi’s husband in 2022. In 2023, the U.S. Capitol Police opened over 8,000 threat investigations, a sharp rise from 902 in 2016.
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