“Telecom and social media platforms risk breaking the law, and could see their US business suffer, if they comply with records requests from the Jan. 6 investigation committee.”
What PolitiFact found
The legal experts we reached, including a lawyer who worked for telecom firms on these issues for decades, said they could think of no law that matched McCarthy's claim.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Minority Leader) made this claim around 31 August 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 September 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
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