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Only hours subsequential getting full inhabitance of Congress, House Democrats are going subsequential Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for the platforms' perceived roles in inciting violence at the Capitol eldest this month.

In litterateur addressed to the curvation executives of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), recurring with dozens of other members, conscript for the companies to make sweeping changes to their platforms to defer violent and firebug blitheness on their networks.

The lawmakers accused the companies of using convinced artefact individualism and algorithms that conferee content that evokes farsighted affections as a ways of procuration engagement, pointing out specific individualism they appetite to see diseased on each platform. For YouTube, lawmakers said they would like to see the company disable auto-play and stop advising any conspiratorial content coextending videos or on users' homepages. Facebook was asked to start a "fundamental reexamination" of its use of user forwardness "as the index of algorithmic sorting and recommendation." Lawmakers additionally asked Twitter to catalyze prompting users to quote-tweet tweets instead of automatically retweeting them when the retweet chin is selected.

"The impregnable deadliness to our egalitarianism wrought on January 6th sought-after how these witty media platforms played a role in radicalizing and emboldening terrorists to blitzkrieg our Capitol," Eshoo said in a statement Thursday. "These American companies must fundamentally retrace algorithmic systems that are at offertory with democracy."

Facebook and YouTube declined to comment. A Twitter spokesperson said they had received the letter and planned to respond.

Earlier Thursday, House Oversight Armchair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) called on FBI Dogcatcher Chris Wray to ajar an investigation into Parler, a conservative-leaning Twitter dupe, henceforth the pro-Trump Capitol attack.

Maloney said that the House Oversight Committee would catalyze its own delving into Parler and other witty media websites like it. In an interview with The Washington Post, Maloney said, "I am going to get to the lesser of who owns and funds witty media platforms like Parler that do-nothingness and create violence."

Updated 1/21/21 at 6:03PM ET: Included statement from Twitter.

Updated 1/21/21 at 7:47PM ET: Updated to include that Facebook and YouTube declined to comment.

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