reports about documents she disclosed added to the public s understanding of facebook s research, structure, actions, success and failures. the select committee believes meta has information critical to its investigation. according to public accounts following the novemeam that had focused on risk to elections, including misinformation, and reduced the application of tools used to restrain the spread of violent content. how much is this period from november all the way to january 6th an increasing focus on the part of social media companies, on the part of the president and his inner circle? well, it s not just the social media companies, although we do need to understand the role that they played, and as you know, the committee is charged with proposing legislation that would make us
minority leader. in the last hour, the committee issued new subpoenas to four social media companies for records about how the spread of misinformation and disinformation and rise in extremism contributed to the attack on the capitol. that is where we begin this hour with something our favorite reporters and friends, but we start with congresswoman zoe lofgren of california. also joining us, former top state department official rick stengel and msnbc national security analyst frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. and the host of the bureau podcast. congresswoman, i want to start with the subpoenas. what are you looking for from facebook, which has a new name, reddit, twitter, and the other social media companies who subpoenaed this afternoon? well, all of them had a role in as platforms for allowing extremism and for allowing apparently plotters to help form
house, the trump campaign, all the way up to the president himself. we have no idea from this indictment. we have no idea whether others knew about all this preplanning. but it is something or efforts post january 6th. but that is the big open question that we are left with, is who else may be looped into this conspiracy? i want to tell our viewers one thing, and then i want to follow up on what dan goldman just said. we have some breaking news from the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. there are brand-new subpoenas for social media companies, alphabet, farmerly google, meta, formerly facebook. reddit and twitter have all been subpoenaed by the january 6th committee for records relating to the january 6th attack. bennie chairman chastised those companies for not cooperating more full low on a voluntary
insurrection. s that there been any response by facebook about what is already in the public record from her? no, and frances haugen, if you remember, was actually also in talks to potentially be speaking with the select committee herself. right. to provide additional information. facebook has remained pretty mum on this since her initial public but i think as the committee wraps up their investigation and tries to pivot towards the public phase you are going to see them ramp up pressure on these tech companies that again can provide new information and insight into a lot of the planning and actual execution that went on surrounding the actual insurrection and breach of the capitol. i want to come back to this d.o.j. indictment. we will keep going in parallel tracks with all of your expertise.
actually implement these new policies. we have had lawmakers say time and time again who are on the committee that this facet of the investigation is misinformation, and the coordination aspect that occurred on line is just as important as the rest of the information. jackie, i want to read about what they are looking for from facebook, which has renamed itself meta. platforms were formerly used to share message of hatred, violence and incitement to spread miss information, disinformation and conspiracy theories around the election and to coordinator attempt to coordinate the stop the steal movement. accounts of the team indicate facebook has documents that are critical to the select committee s investigation. some of this we know from the most credible narrator you could imagine, swb deep inside facebook, the whistle blower, frances haugen who testified that facebook did nothing up to the election up to the after the election up to the