{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-rosen-urge-meta-to-take-action-to-address-spread-of-antisemitic-content-online-2/", "Lankford, Rosen Urge Meta to Take Action to Address Spread of Antisemitic Content Online", "2026-09-29", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "OK", "James Lankford", "L000575", "www.lankford.senate.gov", "lankford", "https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "page_html", "Senators Demanded Answers on Meta\u2019s Current Safeguards Against Fake Accounts, or Bots, Spreading Antisemitism\n\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Today, US Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), co-founders and co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, sent a bipartisan letter to Meta requesting details on the company\u2019s current protections to prevent bots and other inauthentic accounts from spreading antisemitic content on Instagram and Facebook. The Senators also asked that Meta expand their existing protections to safeguard users and limit the spread of antisemitic content on their platforms. This comes after both Senators introduced a comprehensive bill to strengthen federal efforts to fight antisemitism, including online.\n\n\u201cAs members of the US Senate committed to combating antisemitism in all of its forms, we write to express grave concerns regarding the persistent problem of inauthentic accounts and \u2018bot farm\u2019 operations abusing social media platforms to develop and spread antisemitic content on your platforms,\u201d wrote the Senators. \u201cWe also request information about Meta\u2019s current safeguards and enforcement mechanisms to prevent platform abuse by inauthentic accounts on Instagram and Facebook, and to urge Meta to implement reforms to protect users, limit the proliferation of antisemitic content, and strengthen its transparency measures against inauthentic behavior, including by labeling accounts\u2019 country of origin for the American public.\u201d\n\n\u201cResearch has shown how inauthentic social media accounts, sometimes as part of a network of accounts created by foreign actors, can be used to promote antisemitism online and accelerate calls for violence against Jewish Americans\u2026We cannot continue to play catch up as foreign agents and extremists abuse American social media platforms to spread hate and sow discord on American soil and across the globe,\u201d the Senators concluded. \u201cWe need collaboration with our most influential social media companies to bring our digital space to a higher level of transparency and integrity. Labeling Facebook and Instagram accounts with their country of origin would be an impactful step toward combatting foreign-based influence networks.\u201d\n\nYou can read the full text of the letter HERE and can learn more about it HERE in Jewish Insider.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-30T10:57:52Z", "2026-09-30T10:59:04Z"]], "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://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-rosen-urge-meta-to-take-action-to-address-spread-of-antisemitic-content-online-2/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8508260361850262, "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"}