Sen. Amy Klobuchar Amy KlobucharBattle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight Sunday shows - Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death dominates Klobuchar: GOP can't use 'raw political power right in middle of an election' MORE (D-Minn.) on Sunday said she supports imposing fines on social media companies that do not rid their platforms of bots after the government identifies the automated accounts.

“I think that would be a great idea, but then you need a Congress to act,” Klobuchar told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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“And there are too many people that are afraid of doing something about this because we know these sites are popular.”

Twitter told lawmakers last month that automated accounted linked to Russia retweeted President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE hundreds of thousands of times during the last months of the 2016 election.

Klobuchar, who last year introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity for elections, on Sunday called upon social media companies to provide “more resources” to purge bots from Facebook and Twitter.