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Congress Member

Josh Gottheimer

Democratic

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Piker’s perfidy has no place in our party

On Wednesday, Congressmen Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler introduced a bipartisan House resolution condemning the antisemitic rhetoric of Hasan Piker on the far left and Candace Owens on the far right. Antisemitism is a moral problem, not a partisan one, and this resolution treats it as such. Read More

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US lawmakers call on TikTok to add age verification.

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) have written a letter to TikTok USDS CEO Adam Presser, urging the platform to estimate users’ age using their account activity or require parents to confirm their child’s age. The lawmakers also suggest that TikTok works with OS-makers like Apple and Google to implement age verification: > For example, if a user is designated as a child in their iCloud account, meaning they are under 13, Apple could share that information with TikTok and the user therefore would not be able to create a TikTok account. Correction, April 22nd: The name is Josh Gottheimer, not John. Read More