A group of Democratic US senators have written to the Federal Trade Commission urging the regulator to investigate Elon Musk’s Twitter over concerns its new chief executive has “undermined the integrity and safety of the platform”.
In a letter addressed to the FTC chair Lina Khan, the seven senators warned that the platform was displaying “serious, wilful disregard for the safety and security of its users” since Musk took the helm several weeks ago.
The Democratic lawmakers called for the consumer protection regulator to “vigorously oversee” its 2011 consent decree with Twitter, in which the social media platform pledged to better protect user data, and to bring enforcement actions where necessary against the company “or individual Twitter executives”.