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Excerpt from cbsaustin.comA Senate committee tasked with looking into election security policies gave the green light to ask for records from certain big tech companies, including the potential for subpoenas, in a hearing on Wednesday.
The Senate State Affairs committee, chaired by Sen. Bryan Hughes, R- Mineola, unanimously passed a resolution authorizing subpoenas for Alphabet, the parent company of Google; Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram; TikTok; X, formerly known as Twitter; and “any other relevant company or entity.”
“Before issuing subpoenas, we’ll contact each of these entities,” Sen. Hughes said in the committee hearing on Wednesday. “We’ll visit with them, we’ll be real nice, and we’ll try to get the information we need. We’ll give them a chance to comply. We’ll send a request to them in writing. And we’ll let them know in writing that if you do not comply with our request, then a subpoena will be coming.”
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