Kamala Harris vows to hold social media platforms responsible for ‘hate’

Over the weekend, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said that, if elected president in 2020, she would hold social media companies like Facebook and Twitter “accountable” for hate speech and radicalization on their platforms, according to The Hill.

Harris announced her intentions to thwart domestic terrorism at the Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner at the Detroit NAACP on Sunday night. Throughout her speech, Harris discussed several recent attacks on racial and religious minority groups, like the black churches in Louisiana that were set on fire last month and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that occurred late last year.

”We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms because they have a responsibility…

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