Bennie Thompson actually said...

"The fact that this happened nearly 2 years after Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and other major tech companies established the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, pronounced 'GIF-C-T,' ..."

"At a fundamental level, today's hearing is about transparency."

"But after a white supremacist terrorist was able to exploit social media platforms in this way, we all have reason to doubt the effectiveness of the GIFCT and the companies' efforts more broadly."

"We have seen time and time again that social media platforms are vulnerable to being exploited by bad actors."