Florida governor Ron DeSantis ordered his secretary of state to investigate Facebook for "alleged election interference."
The move comes in the wake of a report in The Wall Street Journal, showing that "the tech giant put its thumb on the scale of numerous state and local races by exempting elite users from Facebook’s own rules," according to a Monday statement from DeSantis.
In a Sept. 27 letter, DeSantis directed Florida Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee to investigate Facebook’s alleged failures to comply with Florida’s election laws.
The alleged violations create a "privileged class of speakers" who are empowered to exert influence on elections, DeSantis said.
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