Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding social media companies crack down on the escalation in threats against law enforcement following the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The lawmakers sent letters Friday to a slew of social media companies, including Facebook parent company Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Mr. Trump’s Truth Social platform and Gab, a site popular with right-wing activists.
“We are concerned that reckless statements by the former president and Republican Members of Congress have unleashed a flood of violent threats on social media that have already led to at least one death and pose a danger to law enforcement officers across the United States,” said the letters written by House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, New York Democrat, and national security subcommittee Chairman Stephen F.