as washington and the nation prepare to remember the failed coup at the capitol, the battle over dangerous misinformation continues on a number of other fronts but the top house republican is doing nothing to stop more lies from his own caucus. instead house minority leader kevin mccarthy is threatening social media giants days after twitter closed one of congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s accounts for repeatedly spreading covid misinformation. on tuesday mccarthy himself tweeted, quote, twitter, all big tech if you shutdown constitutionally protected speech, not lewd and obscene, you should lose 230 protection. should mean shutting down the business model you rely on today, and i will work to make that happen. mccarthy was referencing section 230, the law that limits tech companies liability for posted content. in september, he warned without
as washington and the nation prepare to remember the failed coup at the capitol, the battle over dangerous misinformation continues on a number of other fronts but the top house republican is doing nothing to stop more lies from his own caucus. instead house minority leader kevin mccarthy is threatening social media giants days after twitter closed one of congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s accounts for repeatedly spreading covid misinformation. mccarthy tweeted twitter, all big tech if you shut down constitutionally protected speech, not lewd and obscene, you should lose 230 protection. should mean shutting down the business model you rely on today, and i will work to make that happen. mccarthy was referencing section 230, the law that limits tech companies liability for posted content. in september, he warned without