{"id":12786,"date":"2022-08-20T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/20\/lawmakers-press-facebook-tiktok-and-truth-social-over-threats-against-fbi\/"},"modified":"2022-08-20T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:45:29","slug":"lawmakers-press-facebook-tiktok-and-truth-social-over-threats-against-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/20\/lawmakers-press-facebook-tiktok-and-truth-social-over-threats-against-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers press Facebook, TikTok, and Truth Social over threats against FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/19\/23313201\/donald-trump-law-enforcement-threats-truth-social-facebook-tiktok-fbi\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/19\/23313201\/donald-trump-law-enforcement-threats-truth-social-facebook-tiktok-fbi<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"88.457481481481\">\n<p id=\"C4kKJt\">Leaders on the House Oversight Committee are demanding major social media platforms swiftly address the surge of online threats against law enforcement after the FBI\u2019s search of former president Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida last week. <\/p>\n<p id=\"fBgSZ3\">On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/2022-08-19.CBM%20SFL%20to%20Zuckerberg-Meta%20re%20Social%20Media%20Threats.pdf\">the lawmakers sent letters<\/a> to eight major social media companies demanding information detailing the number of threats against law enforcement made on their platforms in recent weeks. The committee targeted its inquiries toward prominent mainstream platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, but also wrote to fringe right-leaning competitors like Gab, GETTR, Rumble, and <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/2022-08-19.CBM%20SFL%20to%20Nunes-Truth%20Social%20re%20Social%20Media%20Threats.pdf\">Trump\u2019s own Truth Social<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"a6sFE3\"><q>\u201cthreats and incitements of deadly violence are unacceptable and against the law\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"UK4oZH\">In the letters, the lawmakers called for details on how each platform identifies and responds to these online threats. They also asked for copies of any advertisements \u201cshown alongside posts\u201d that either were reported to or targeted law enforcement officials. The lawmakers cited several posts made by users on Twitter and Truth Social \u201ccalling for civil war and violence toward law enforcement.\u201d They also noted posts from sitting Republican representatives like Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) demanding Congress \u201cdefund\u201d or \u201cdestroy\u201d the \u201ccorrupt FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"KPQjUm\">\u201cWe 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,\u201d the lawmakers wrote. \u201cWe urge you to take immediate action to address any threats of violence against law enforcement that appear on your company\u2019s platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"KQHmPE\">The committee\u2019s letters come just a week after federal authorities sounded the alarm about the growing number of online threats being made against law enforcement. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/15\/23306860\/trump-mar-a-lago-search-raid-fbi-dhs-online-threats\">FBI and Department of Homeland Security<\/a> shared a joint intelligence bulletin with state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials across the country last Friday highlighting the surge. The bulletin said that the threats were being made \u201cprimarily online and across multiple platforms, including social media sites, web forums, video sharing platforms, and image boards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"0XJuHX\">The FBI and DHS warned that an escalation in online threats could contribute to real-world violence against law enforcement officials. In the bulletin, the authorities highlighted alarming posts made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mar-a-lago-search-fbi-threat-law-enforcement\/\">by a Truth Social user shortly<\/a> after the search who later attempted to breach an FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio last week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"hq4Kxg\">\u201cThe Committee strongly supports the First Amendment rights of all Americans to speak out about the actions of their government and law enforcement matters, including on social media platforms,\u201d the lawmakers wrote. \u201cHowever, threats and incitements of deadly violence are unacceptable and against the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"KFVw8j\">Trump himself has continued to denounce the FBI on Truth Social, accusing officials of planting evidence and other unlawful behavior. After being kicked off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/8\/22218753\/twitter-bans-trump-permanently-realdonaldtrump\">most major social media platforms<\/a> after the January 6th attack on the Capitol last year, Trump launched the platform, whose downloads have jumped nearly 550 percent since the search, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/4ax3k3\/truth-social-downloads-spike-fbi-search\">according to a new report from <em>Vice <\/em>on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/19\/23313201\/donald-trump-law-enforcement-threats-truth-social-facebook-tiktok-fbi\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/19\/23313201\/donald-trump-law-enforcement-threats-truth-social-facebook-tiktok-fbi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Leaders on the House Oversight Committee are demanding major social media platforms swiftly address the surge of online threats against law enforcement after the FBI\u2019s search of former president Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida last week. On Friday, the lawmakers sent letters to eight major social media companies demanding information detailing the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-12786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-technology","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lawmakers press Facebook, TikTok, and Truth Social over threats against FBI - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/20\/lawmakers-press-facebook-tiktok-and-truth-social-over-threats-against-fbi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawmakers press Facebook, TikTok, and Truth Social over threats against FBI - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Leaders on the House Oversight Committee are demanding major social media platforms swiftly address the surge of online threats against law enforcement after the FBI\u2019s search of former president Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida last week. 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