Congress Is Likely to Support New Regulations on Social Media, Senator Says

  • Democratic senator predicts bipartisan support for changes
  • Warner says days of unregulated ‘wild, wild west are over’
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Mark Warner, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, said Thursday a broad bipartisan majority in Congress likely will back new regulation of social media, though such legislation might take time to come together.

"Depending on how we framed it, I think we’d have an overwhelming majority," Warner of Virginia said at a conference on digital privacy in Washington sponsored by the Atlantic magazine. "I think there is a high chance that people realize that the days of the wild, wild west are over, that there needs to be some guardrails."