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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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,”
Uh no t hat would be the raid itself that unleashed anything. On another note, how the hell will they differentiate blm and Antifa and other leftists threateners from right wing?
as with Jan 6 & other circumstances, the FakeNewsMSM writes this as if some Trump supporter has killed someone. you have to read it carefully to find out otherwise.
shame on the Dems and their enablers, the MSM.
“Watergate pales in comparison”
Really?
Mar-A-Lago raid was done to hide evidence of crimes by DOJ, FBI, CIA, and prior President(s).
Watergate was done to retrieve files about John Dean’s prostitute girlfriend.
They sound exactly the same to me. [smh]
The FBI and Democrats need to be in the crosshairs of final truth and justice!
The blm and antifa types pretty much can never run amok again based on the standards the left sets for the right. Oh wait yes they can because the right is evil and racist. They doth do project too much.
How's that?
Beavens to Hetsy, noooo!
This is directed to democommies, bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN’Ts and the fib...
Faaaaaaa-Q
we now return to your regularly schedueled program
Those suburbanite North Virginians. Who knew that they were right-wing extremists threatening police!
“How’s that?”
Most people familiar with the situation who are insiders of the Trump family is that the raid was done to retrieve evidence PDJT had/has regarding the truth about Crossfire Hurricane.
The fbi, and really all three letter federal agencies, are the enemy, folks. Stop pretending everything is fine. It is not.
It is not Law Enforcement but has turned into Lawless Enforcement.
Yes, that is what isn’t being said.
The RATs own police, the FBI, are pure as the driven snow. /s
But they don’t seem concerned at all about protecting Americans from an out of control government that is threatening its own citizens.
This is what happens when the Democrats use the FBI as their personnel Gestapo but the FBI should be telling the Democrats right where to go
Did they say threats to law enforcement? After defund the police and the summer of love 2020? Fuck these hypocrites
I don’t know of anybody who would contemplate violence on this side of another stolen election.
Spot on
I don’t remember these RAT jackasses doing all this whining when their voter base BLMmers were murdering police officers everyday. This is RAT hypocrite BS. KMA RATS.
If the FBI is as worried about “threats” as their RAT massahs and RAT “media” toadies are, I think we need some new FBI guys. The snowflakes aren’t cutting it.
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