That includes inaccurate statements aboutCOVID-19 vaccines, as well as other false health-related claims.
Lives are at stake."
This legislation will hold online platforms accountable for the spread of health-related misinformation.
Twitter declined to comment.
Google, which owns YouTube, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
This isn’t the first time the senators have urged social media giants to push back against health misinformation.
And in January, Klobuchar, along with Democratic Sens.
In March,12 state attorneys generalalso called on Facebook and Twitter to do more to fight vaccine misinformation.
At the time, Facebook said it had more than35,000 people taking down misinformationon the platform.
Twitter said it had removed more than 22,400 tweets based on its policy on misleading information surrounding COVID-19.
In response, Facebook said it’s taken down more than 18 million pieces of COVID-19 misinformation.
