Senate Homeland Security chair asks TikTok for policies on extremist content
CNN
Sen. Gary Peters, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is asking TikTok to provide information on its policies monitoring and removing violent extremist content from its platform, as part of the committee's efforts to investigate the rise in domestic terrorism and the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection.
In a letter sent Tuesday, Peters, a Michigan Democrat, demanded information on the content "related to the promotion, recruitment, and advocacy" of events leading to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol that was removed from the platform three months prior to the attack.
The senator asked for what "strategies and actions" TikTok planned or executed with federal, state and local agencies to "detect and prevent extremist violence online, including without limitation, in relation to the January 6, 2021 attack."