Two Democrat senators have decided to put fresh (public) pressure on major social networks in the US ahead of the November election.
Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner penned a letter addressed to Meta, X, Discord, Twitch, and Alphabet (Google) that entirely predictably revolves around the talk of “election disinformation” and highlights that their concerns about this are “persistent.”
The letter effectively accuses these companies of allowing the proliferation of such content on their platforms, and stresses the need to stomp it out through “prioritizing decisive action.”
The companies are warned by the senators that what they described as the continued spread of “misinformation” means it is reaching millions of people, and that things will only get worse as “AI gets more sophisticated.”
