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
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.
Ahead of the January 6 insurrection, calls for violence could be found in discussions on TikTok and several TikTok videos promoting violence racked up thousands of views, with one user advocating for protestors to take their"mother-[expletive] guns" to Washington, DC, according to research from nonpartisan nonprofit Advance Democracy.At the time, TikTok had removed two of the videos after they were flagged by CNN Business.
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