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…
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