Posted on 08/21/2022 1:47:46 AM PDT by Libloather
House Oversight Committee leaders urged eight social media companies Friday to crack down on online threats against law enforcement that are reportedly on the rise following the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home Mar-a-Lago.
The lawmakers sent letters demanding information and documents from Twitter, TikTok, Facebook parent company Meta and Telegram, as well as the Trump-backed app Truth Social. Three other platforms with largely conservative followings, Rumble, Gettr and Gab, were also contacted.
The letters seek data on the threats posted online since the Aug. 8 search of the former president’s Palm Beach, Florida, residence, along with information about company policies for reporting and removing threats.
Statements by Trump and his Republican allies about the search may have “unleashed a flood of violent threats on social media that have already led to at least one death,” Oversight Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and National Security subcommittee Chairman Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., wrote in the letters.
They cited a warning from the FBI and Homeland Security Department that threats against officers have spiked online since agents executed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, according to NBC News.
The Democrats were also referencing a man who fired a nail gun at an FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio, then fled before being killed in a gunfight with police. That man, identified by police as Ricky Shiffer, had apparently posted numerous threatening messages on Truth Social following the Mar-a-Lago raid.
“We urge you to take immediate action to address any threats of violence against law enforcement that appear on your company’s platforms,” Maloney and Lynch wrote in the letters.
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Would these be the same police officers that these leftists claim go out every night to hunt down innocent unarmed black men?
Absolute rubbish.
Still More #ComDem_Insanity!
House Dims are the scum of the earth, BUT I wouldn’t hurt them nor the CORRUPT law enforcement in DC, for the world. No Siree.
They’re just not worth it.
Besides they are doing a great job destroying themselves, after all they are CORRUPT.
The FBI needs no outside help to destroy itself.
They are claiming victim status? What a country…
considering the nonstop police hatred spewed during ‘chaz’ and all the antifa riots, it’s pretty funny the democrats only now want to do something about ‘threats’ against ‘law enforcement’
This is a wonderful demonstration of Oath-taken Congressional lawmakers NOT UPHOLDING THEIR OATH OF OFFICE.
Sending demands from Mt. Olympus to the beholders of the messenger services, to upend the pfivacy protected by The Constitution’s 1st and 4th and 5th Amendments.
The ‘police’ were not the gate-crashers at Mar-a-Lago, the “Federal Bureau of Investigation” were! The same krewe that burned kids at Waco, during The International Year of The Child”,no less. The same krewe that killed the wife of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. The same krewe that put their seal of approval to a certain Russian phantom, and faithless, documnt. And now, the same krewe that, IMHO, illegally, ransacked, for the 1st time in American history, a former President’s personal residence!!
AFISI, the “Federal Bureau of Investigation” has become the “new and improved East German Stasi”, under the full direction of the American Democrat/Comunnist Party”.
From another related article, this appears to have happened about 10 days ago.
I’m not buying the story line. He may be a nutcase or he may be part of false flag. (tin foil?)
I no longer believe anything our Federal Government says. NOTHING.
No Trump supporter that I know wants or advocates violence.
But the most of the Fed Gov is currently lawless and Rogue. Outside of the Constitutional restraints.
If they can start tracing IP addresses I wouldn’t be surprised if they were coming from the D.C. area, or D.C. itself.
No, you don’t see the emerging narrative.
Federal Police = good
Municipal Police = bad
The very definition of crybullies.
The FBI acted “stupidly”
If I had a son, he would look like Trump.
There is a systemic racism in the FBI against people of color...in this case, orange.
Notice how they are attempting to drag ALL law enforcement in to this as victims. Americans support law enforcement, just no longer the ibf. It’s another attempt to further divide the country. It won’t work!
What “social credit” is that?
Most Americans think of the FBI as Biden's own Gestapo right now.
Majority Of Americans View The FBI As Biden's Personal Gestapo
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4087087/posts
The FBI needs to be banned or drastically defunded at the very least.
Yeah, like you clowns did when BLM and Antifa torched a dozen cities around the US last year.
Violence = any criticism.
The man who fired the nail gun?
Ricky Walter Shiffer
He is said to have been at a gathering at BLM plaza the night before the Jan 6 “breach” of capital.
The usual suspect #ComDem reporters are spewing a lot of crap that there is no real evidence to support. In my opinion. This incident took place the same day that the raid on Trump’s home took place.
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