Not everybody will be enjoying a relaxing Labor Day weekend. Last week, the U.S. House of Representative’s Select Committee in charge of investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection gave social media companies two weeks to produce a broad spectrum of records related to the 2020 election and the ensuing attack on the U.S. Capitol.  

For some of the bigger tech companies on that list—names like Twitter, Facebook and Google—producing the volumes of data, reports, internal analyses and communications that investigators are looking to obtain is more of a question of “when” than “if.” Just don’t expect “when” to fall within the two-week deadline. 

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