California Dems seek safeguards against election misinformation
Por Gabby Miller — POLITICO – TOP Stories
Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla of California are demanding social media platforms have plans in place to combat false and misleading content ahead of the November midterm elections, according to a letter sent Wednesday to more than half a dozen tech executives and shared first with POLITICO.
“Your companies have continued to retreat from the responsibility of ensuring that information online is accurate,” the letter reads, referring to steps companies such as X, Meta and YouTube have taken in recent years to loosen their content moderation rules.
“Under the circumstances, Congress has no choice but to carefully scrutinize how social media platforms respond to large-scale election mis and disinformation, both before and after the 2026 midterm elections, which are already underway,” the letter added.
The full list of recipients includes SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram’s Adam Mosseri, Google’s Sundar Pichai, TikTok’s Adam Presser, Snap’s Evan Spiegel and YouTube’s Neal Mohan.
The missive landed in tech leaders’ inboxes just weeks after the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot delivery rules that threatened to throw the looming midterm elections into disarray.
The senators are requesting written responses from the companies by Oct. 15 detailing their current election integrity policies and what additional actions they will take ahead of the midterm elections.
Fonte: POLITICO – TOP Stories
