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U.S. House panel subpoenas website 8chan owner to testify as part of social media probe

Published 08/15/2019, 04:25 AM
Updated 08/15/2019, 04:30 AM
U.S. House panel subpoenas website 8chan owner to testify as part of social media probe

U.S. House panel subpoenas website 8chan owner to testify as part of social media probe

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House Homeland
Security Committee said Wednesday it had subpoenaed online
message board 8chan owner Jim Watkins to testify on Sept. 5 as
part of its probe into countering extremist content on social
media platforms.
Last week, the panel had demanded Watkins, an American
living in the Philippines, testify. Representative Bennie
Thompson, a Democrat and the panel's chairman, and Mike Rogers,
its ranking Republican, said the shooting deaths of 22 people at
an El Paso Walmart store was "at least the third act of
supremacist violence linked to your website this year."
The pair said, "receiving testimony from Mr. Watkins is
critical to our oversight on this matter."


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