Last week, The Washington Post published a draft memo reportedly produced by the House Jan. 6 committee that detailed social media companies’ failure to curb extremism, fomented by Donald Trump and others, ahead of the deadly U.S. Capitol riot in 2021. The memo was shocking — not only because it found significant institutional failures by companies like Twitter and Facebook, but also because much of those findings were not described in detail in the committee’s final report.
That decision remains, in my view, the most conspicuous and worrying failure by the committee. It suggests that even as Democrats these days rightly criticize Republican lawmakers for deliberately misinforming the public, they have their own intraparty issues with power, transparency and truthfulness.
Now, a witness who provided some of the details in that memo is speaking out. In an interview with CNN that aired Thursday, Twitter whistleblower Anika Collier Navaroli expressed dismay over the committee’s choice not to include much of the testimony from her and others in the final report.
“Social media companies are mentioned hundreds of times within the final report,” the former Twitter employee said. “However, their role or their responsibility within that day and the events of that day, and the violence that occurred, has not been fully laid out.”
To her point, the report lays out several examples of social media users, including Trump, sharing extremist content about — and even plans for —...
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