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 from the
companies relating to their role in allegedly
spreading misinformation about the 2020
election and 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