华盛顿——在要求十几个社交平台提供文件几个月后，调查国会大厦暴动的众议院委员会发出了针对推特、元、红迪和YouTube的传票，此前议员们表示，这些公司的初步回应不够充分。
该委员会主席、众议员本尼·汤普森(Bennie Thompson)周四要求这些公司提供与涉嫌传播2020年错误信息有关的记录选举并在2021年1月6日起义前在其平台上宣扬国内暴力极端主义。
D-Miss的汤普森说:“对特别委员会来说，两个关键问题是，错误信息和暴力极端主义的传播如何促成了对我们民主的暴力攻击，以及社交媒体公司采取了哪些措施(如果有的话)来防止其平台成为煽动人们暴力的温床。，信中说。
汤普森补充说，“令人失望的是，经过几个月的接触，”这四家公司没有自愿交出必要的信息和文件，这些信息和文件将有助于立法者回答他们调查的核心问题。
汤普森在信中概述了这些公司参与唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)和极右翼团体支持者发动的致命叛乱的方式。
该信称，Alphabet拥有的YouTube是一个平台，在那里进行了大量与围攻国会大厦的“计划和执行”相关的交流，“包括攻击发生时的直播”。
该委员会指出，据报道，梅塔(原名脸书)是如何被用来在用户之间交换仇恨、暴力和煽动性信息，以及传播关于2020年总统大选选举试图协调“停止偷窃”运动。
信中说，在成员迁移到一个官方网站之前，在Reddit上，r/The-Donald“sub Reddit”社区显著增长，调查人员认为，该网站主持了围绕攻击计划的讨论。Reddit的一名发言人周四表示，该公司已经收到传票，“将继续就他们的请求与委员会合作。”
这封信概述了推特如何被警告在攻击前其平台上正在计划的潜在暴力，以及其用户如何参与“放大选举欺诈指控的通信，包括前总统本人的通信。”
这封信强调了特朗普在2020年12月19日的一条具体推文:“从统计数据来看，不可能输掉2020年大选”，因为他在2021年1月6日敦促追随者来到华盛顿进行“疯狂”的抗议。
推特的发言人拒绝对传票发表评论。Meta和Alphabet的代表没有立即回复寻求置评的消息。
8月，该委员会首次向15家社交媒体公司索要文件，其中还包括抖音、Parler、Telegram、4chan和8kun。
传票发出之际，由九名成员组成的委员会继续对一群暴徒如何潜入国会大厦并破坏民主党人乔·拜登总统胜利的认证进行广泛调查，这是两个世纪以来对国会最严重的攻击。
由七名民主党人和两名共和党人组成的委员会已经采访了340多人，并向特朗普的核心圈子里的人发出了几十份传票，包括他的前幕僚长，以及向他们在众议院的同事发出的请求。
周三，委员会要求采访加州众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡。
麦卡锡以及共和党众议员俄亥俄州的吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)和宾夕法尼亚州的斯科特·佩里(Scott Perry)都否认了委员会要求他们坐下来接受采访或交出与2021年1月6日与特朗普或与他关系密切的人的谈话有关的文件，因为数百名特朗普的支持者殴打警察，冲进大楼，并中断了2020年大选的认证。
Twitter, Meta among tech giants subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel
WASHINGTON -- Months after requesting documents from more than a dozen social platforms, the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas targeting Twitter, Meta, Reddit and YouTube after lawmakers said the companies' initial responses were inadequate.
The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, demanded records Thursday from the companies relating to their role in allegedly spreading misinformation about the 2020electionand promoting domestic violent extremism on their platforms in the lead-up to the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
“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," Thompson, D-Miss., said in the letter.
Thompson added that it's “disappointing that after months of engagement,” the four companies have not voluntarily turned over the necessary information and documents that would help lawmakers answer the questions at the heart of their investigation.
In his letter, Thompson outlined the way the companies were complicit in the deadly insurrection perpetrated by supporters of Donald Trump and far-right groups.
YouTube, owned by Alphabet, was the platform where a significant amount of communication took place “relevant to the planning and execution" of the siege against the Capitol, "including livestreams of the attack as it was taking place,” the letter stated.
The committee stated how Meta, formerly known as Facebook, was reportedly used to exchange hateful, violent and inciting messages between users as well as spread misinformation that the 2020 presidentialelectionwas fraudulent in an attempt to coordinate the “Stop the Steal” movement.
On Reddit, the r/The—Donald “subreddit” community grew significantly, the letter said, before members migrated to an official website where investigators believe discussions around the planning of the attack were hosted. A spokesperson for Reddit said Thursday that the company had received the subpoena and “will continue to work with the committee on their requests.”
The letter outlined how Twitter was warned about the potential violence that was being planned on its platform in advance of the attack and how its users engaged in “communications amplifying allegations of election fraud, including by the former President himself.”
The letter highlighted one specific tweet from Trump on Dec. 19, 2020: “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election” as he urged followers to come to Washington to engage in a “wild” protest on Jan. 6, 2021.
A spokesperson for Twitter declined to comment on the subpoenas. Representatives for Meta and Alphabet did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
The committee made its initial request for the documents from 15 social media companies in August, which also included TikTok, Parler, Telegram, 4chan and 8kun.
The subpoenas come as the nine-member committee continues its wide-reaching investigation into how a mob was able to infiltrate the Capitol and disrupt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential victory, in what was the most serious assault on Congress in two centuries.
The committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans has interviewed more than 340 people and issued dozens of subpoenas to those in Trump's inner circle, including his former chief of staff, as well as requests to their own colleagues in the House.
On Wednesday, the committee requested an interview with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
McCarthy as well as GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania have denied the committee's request to sit down for interviews or turn over documents related to their conversations on Jan. 6, 2021, with Trump or those close to him as hundreds of his supporters beat police, stormed the building and interrupted the certification of the 2020 election.
