Thread by @justinhendrix

FBI Director Testimony Makes Clear Why January 6th Commission Should Investigate Social Media Platforms - my latest for @techpolicypress: techpolicy.press/fbi-director-t…

.@profcarroll: [Social media platforms] cannot deny that they are in the business of assembling the kind of data flows that investigations into January 6th require.”

.@informor: It would be useful to look at “user reports and flagging of groups, pages accounts and channels associated with January 6th, and how these reports were handled by the platforms."

.@BNonnecke: "What role did their recommender system play in this targeting? How aware were they of the role of their recommender systems in spreading this rhetoric/mobilization? How did targeted advertising play a role?"

.@SpauldingSez: "This was first and foremost a domestic problem, but I would be interested in what they could tell us about the degree to which foreign adversaries amplified the pernicious messaging."

With reference to reporting by @JeffHorwitz, @lizzadwoskin, questions from @ChrisCoons, and the new report in Capitol siege perpetrators from @gwupoe.

Given post Jan 6th takedowns, there is concern about preservation of evidence. “This starts with a framing question of what data they still have, with a big caveat of some unknown amount of relevant material may have been permanently deleted when taken down,” says @GrahamBrookie.

In this piece I point to some words in @JameelJaffer's public comment to the Facebook Oversight Board that sounded a lot like what Senator @ChrisCoons said yesterday during FBI Director Wray's testimony.