(CNN) The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has issued four subpoenas to giant social media conglomerates after the panel said the companies provided "inadequate responses" to its initial request for documents and information over the summer. The subpoenas were sent to Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Alphabet, the parent company to Google and Youtube, Twitter and Reddit. "Two key questions for the Select Committee are how the spread of misinformation and violent extremism contributed to the violent attack on our democracy, and what steps -- if any -- social media companies took to prevent their platforms from being breeding grounds for radicalizing people to violence," Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the committee, said in a statement. "It's disappointing that after months of engagement, we still do not have the documents and information necessary to answer those basic questions," he continued. The committee writes to Alphabet that it believes the company has "significant undisclosed information that is critical to its investigation" about how it moderated its content and how those policies impacted what was on the platform on January 6.

Source: CNN January 14, 2022 03:56 UTC