Congress plots bipartisan probe of terror-tied app Telegram Encrypted messaging service used to disseminate official Hamas statements and propaganda videos

(Free Beacon) House lawmakers are pushing a bipartisan bill that would compel the Biden-Harris administration to document and assess all terrorism threats to the United States that are disseminated through foreign messaging apps such as Telegram, according to a copy of the bill obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Rep. August Pfluger (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, is slated to introduce the bill on Tuesday alongside Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D., Calif.). It would require the U.S. intelligence community to furnish annual reports about the terrorism landscape on popular social media applications, which have enabled hostile nations like Iran to disseminate their radical propaganda with few restrictions.

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