{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://raskin.house.gov/2023/11/reps-raskin-goldman-demand-elon-musk-x-leadership-enforce-platform-guidelines-to-address-surging-misinformation-antisemitic-and-violent-content", "Reps. Raskin, Goldman Demand Elon Musk, X Leadership Enforce Platform Guidelines to Address Surging Misinformation, Antisemitic and Violent Content", "2023-11-21", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "MD", "Jamie Raskin", "R000606", "raskin.house.gov", "raskin", "https://raskin.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Dan Goldman (NY-10), along with 25 colleagues in the House of Representatives, wrote \u2018X\u2019 (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk and Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino demanding X address failures in applying its anti-misinformation and anti-violence policies to Hamas terrorist propaganda.\n\nFollowing the October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel, analysts have documented surging graphic violent content and misinformation on the platform, including Hamas\u2019 terroristic propaganda videos. Much of this content violates X\u2019s platform policies, which prohibit \u201cengaging in or promoting violent acts,\u201d and \u201crecruiting, or providing or distributing services (such as media/propaganda) to further stated goals.\u201d\n\n\u201cSeveral weeks ago, reports from multiple nonprofit research groups showed X Premium accounts spreading Hamas terrorist propaganda videos glorifying barbaric acts of violence against Israelis,\u201d wrote the lawmakers. \u201cFurther, these reports demonstrated that X is profiting from the spread of this gruesome and harmful propaganda through account subscription fees and ad revenue.\u201d\n\nThe lawmakers continued, \u201cAs of today, most of the terrorist propaganda posts flagged by [EU researchers] inexplicably remain live on your platform. Given the many flagrant examples of X profiting off this content, we need detailed answers from X in considering potential legislation that would prevent such activity in the future.\u201d\n\nReps. Raskin and Goldman called on X to abide by its regulatory policies, particularly its \u2018violent and hateful entities\u2019 guidelines, and provide answers to the following questions about persistent misinformation and violent content on X.\n\nThe lawmakers wrote, \u201cWe also ask that you provide written responses to the following questions:\n\nPlease explain how these violating posts and accounts were allowed to remain live for days after their policy violations had been publicized?\n\nWhat action does X plan to take about Hamas-related content currently on the platform?\n\nWhat changes does X intend to implement to ensure that the harmful spread of terrorist propaganda does not happen again?\u201d\n\nThe letter is available here in full.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://raskin.house.gov/2023/11/reps-raskin-goldman-demand-elon-musk-x-leadership-enforce-platform-guidelines-to-address-surging-misinformation-antisemitic-and-violent-content"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9393878281116486, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}