US Senator thinks Twitter and Facebook may need a license to operate

US Senator Lindsay Graham, a Republican critic of social media companies like Meta’s Facebook and Twitter, saidthat he wants create a way to regulate, and perhaps license, social media companies.

Graham said that he was working on a measure — he did not say what form it would take — with Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, and Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican. Graham could not be reached for further comment and Warren and Hawley did not immediately return a call for comment.

At a hearing to discuss security lapses at Twitter, Graham said the companies were allowed to become internationally powerful with few restrictions on what they could and could not do. He also expressed concern that the Federal Trade Commission seemed to have few tools in their regulatory toolbox to rein them in.