Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Look there. They're asking for an encore.

All right. Here are our overtime questions. This is for you, Frances. Why did Congress fail to hold

social media companies accountable for their role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol?

It's interesting. So despite, I did a huge amount of testimony for the January 6th.

I know you did.

And I believe none of it was included in the final write-up report.

It wasn't one of the attributable things.

I think part of it was that the January 6 committee felt it needed to educate the public on a very broad set of issues.

And then I think they had to pick and choose on how many things are we really going to walk people down that road.

Which was smart.

That committee was smart. I mean, didn't do anything.

Did you do it?

I've seen their interviews with Republicans. Nothing changes anybody's mind about anything.

But they can't blame the committee. They put out a show.

There was a good show. And that was a smart decision. I'm sorry.

But they had a lot of fish to fry.

But I want to be super clear. Facebook could have had on the safety measures that were available on the day of election.

They could have turned those on on a day sooner than after 6 p.m. on January 6.

Because they had none of them on at 6 p.m. on January 6.

And they had them all on by 24 hours later.

And they all threw Trump off, right? Twitter right after January 6.

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