Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin urged AG Garland in a letter to review Twitter's handling of child exploitation material.
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Durbin said Twitter "has provided little confidence that it is adequately policing its platform to prevent" child exploitation.Mary Altaffer / AP fileSenate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin urged Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter Tuesday to review Twitter's handling of child exploitation material, calling the Justice Department's failure to address the issue"unacceptable.
"I further urge you to consider whether an online platform can be held liable under federal criminal law for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent the foreseeable proliferation of CSAM on its platform, and, if not, to inform the Senate Judiciary Committee whether the Department needs any additional legislative authority to address such criminally negligent behavior," Durbin wrote.
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