Congressman Matt Gaetz Files Criminal Referral Against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

[brooklynite]

Source: Office of Congressman Matt Gaetz

Today, U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) filed a criminal referral against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for making materially false statements to Congress while under oath during two joint hearings in Congress on April 10th, 2018 and April 11th, 2018.

During a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and also a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Mr. Zuckerberg repeatedly and categorically denied his company engaged in bias against conservative speech, persons, policies, or politics and also denied that Facebook censored and suppressed content supportive of President Donald Trump and other conservatives.

In June of 2020 however, Project Veritas published the results of an undercover investigation featuring two whistleblowers who worked as Facebook's "content moderators," revealing that the overwhelming majority of content filtered by Facebook's AI program was content in support of President Donald Trump, Republican candidates for office, or conservatism in general.

"Oversight is an essential part of Congress' constitutional authority," Congressman Gaetz states in the letter. "As a member of this body, I question Mr. Zuckerberg's veracity, and challenge his willingness to cooperate with our oversight authority, diverting congressional resources during time-sensitive investigations, and materially impeding our work. Such misrepresentations are not only unfair, they are potentially illegal and fraudulent."

Read more: https://gaetz.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-matt-gaetz-files-criminal-referral-against-facebook-ceo-mark

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Does Devin Nunes know that someone's competing for the role of chief Toady?

[msongs]

1. maybe some dems could ask gaetz about this procedure and use it themselves nt

[RockRaven]

2. What Gaetz is doing here, besides just general dumbassery, is HELPING COVER FOR ZUCK/FB

Step 1: make bogus accusation.

Step 2: utterly fail to prove accusation (i.e. Use project fucking veritas, a known scam/fraud/criminal outlet, as your evidence).

Step 3: all future accusations against the accused are viewed in the light of the first ridiculous, easily discredited accusation.

[Mr. Evil]

8. As I was reading this my bullshit-o-meter began to spike.

When I got to the mentioning of project veritas my bullshit-o-meter pegged off the scale. Whiny baby Matt Gaetz needs a waambulance, pronto!

[CatLady78]

15. Sounds about right

I wish right wing nuts would stop the phony attacks on Zuckerberg. He really is more like one of them than like any sort of decent human being .

This will just help the creep claim that the "far left" and the "far right" attack him. Therefore, it stands to reason that he must basically be a decent guy. A moronic line of logic but representative of a type of shallow thought process. I think Zuckerberg should be in prison, but not because of Project Veritas (barf) or Matt Gaetz.

[mountain grammy]

21. Exactly what I thought.

[AleksS]

3. Garth doesn't realize that says miles more

About conservatives than it does about Facebook.

(Not that FB is a saint, but today’s GOP makes beelzebub look like a sweet cherubim in terms for f sheer vileness. )

Edit to add: won’t it be nice when this case gets tossed and there’s legal proof that the conservative ideology is toxic, fraudulent, violent, and unamerican? Thanks Matty!

[reACTIONary]

18. Exactly right nt

[Archae]

4. Gaetz is using Project Veritas as a "source."

And they are notorious for simply making shit up.

O'Keefe has no credibility, no sense of decency, and NO CLASS.

[Progressive Jones]

5. Tea Baggers, and other such RW radicals, are not Conservatives.

They've merely infested the party that was once made up of mostly Conservatives.

[jmowreader]

6. Zuckerberg needs to subpoena O'Keefe's raw footage

If he doesn't have it, move to dismiss based on O'Keefe's long and sordid record of lying through his teeth.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. tRumpers and Republicons tend to post more lies & disinformation. That's why they get censored more

It's that simple.

[gab13by13]

19. Exactly, you nailed it,

more Republican post were censored because more Republican posts were lies, not because of bias. Simple explanations are sometimes the best route to take.

[johnnyfins]

20. DING DING DING DING

Winner!

[pecosbob]

9. Go back to filing lawsuits against cows...it's more entertaining.

[Roy Rolling]

10. For God Fuc*ing Sake

Can’t the best lawyer in the country be found to beat this asshole at his own game? A good lawyer can either drag it out in front of the cameras for months if he/she has the evidence, or make quick work in the media if it’s just a bluff.

Don’t let Gaetz work the system for Chrissake! That is Trump’s method and why we’re in the mess we’re in now.

[sarcasmo]

11. What about Nestor?

Free Nestor!

[SunSeeker]

12. LOL

[shahulassad]

13. Seriously

Nothing's gonna happens. Well, congratulations congressman you made it on news!!!

[CatLady78]

14. Project Veritas? If a criminal case is filed it should be by Sen Wyden.

Someone should file a criminal case against Facebook. However, it should not be this creep nor should it use a known Republican smear monger like James O'Keefe. This will net help Zuckerberg.

A criminal case should be filed by Sen Wyden:
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-introduces-comprehensive-bill-to-secure-americans-personal-information-and-hold-corporations-accountable

“Mark Zuckerberg won’t take Americans’ privacy seriously unless he feels personal consequences. A slap on the wrist from the FTC won’t do the job, so under my bill he’d face jail time for lying to the government,” Wyden said. “I spent the past year listening to experts and strengthening the protections in my bill. It is based on three basic ideas: Consumers must be able to control their own private information, companies must provide vastly more transparency about how they use and share our data, and corporate executives need to be held personally responsible when they lie about protecting our personal information.”

The Mind Your Own Business Act protects Americans’ privacy, allows consumers to control the sale and sharing of their data, gives the FTC the authority to be an effective cop on the beat, and will spur a new market for privacy-protecting services. The bill empowers the FTC to:

Establish minimum privacy and cybersecurity standards.

[Zephaniah]

16. I'd like to see BOTH of 'em locked up

Markie has scruples only after it co$ts him, and Matty is a Trump Cultist who's probably broken the law several times!

[Maxheader]

17. Whistleblowers can work for ya...

or against....Keep filtering for democracy..zuck...

[LiberalFighter]

22. Does he have that power?