House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Facebook during remarks in London on Friday, accusing the social media company of enabling the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol by failing to police extremist and conspiratorial content on its site.
In remarks at Chatham House, a London-based international affairs think tank, the California Democrat said the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, which delayed certification of the presidential election, was not “a failure of the Democratic democratic system in the United States.”
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“We see it as the actions of a president who [did] not respect the oath of office that he took or the office that he served,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi said there were “root causes” behind the riot, such as white supremacy, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and homophobia.
Without naming former President Donald Trump, Pelosi said he “did not create those problems I mentioned, but he galvanized them.”
Social media, Pelosi said, “enabled that to happen.”
“Two million QAnon finding like-minded thinking people in that um, in that world, in the social media. Thank you, Facebook, for 2 million members of QAnon,” Pelosi said, referring to a Facebook internal audit that uncovered millions of followers of the conspiracy theory on the social media platform.
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Pelosi said social media is “a blessing, but a double-edged sword.”
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
