Lawmaker Urges Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to Remove Chinese Regime Propagandists

Lawmaker Urges Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to Remove Chinese Regime Propagandists
U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) brief members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House after a meeting with President Donald Trump October 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
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Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are not doing enough to limit the Chinese regime’s disinformation and propaganda on their platforms, according to scorecards released by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas).

The scorecards, released after two months of communications with the social media companies, graded them on whether they labeled posts by Chinese state-run media outlets, blocked Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials from having verified accounts, fact-checked posts, and had comprehensively removed CCP propaganda and disinformation.

Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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