House Judiciary Committee To Vote On Citing Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg For Contempt Of Congress
deadline.comThe House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote for Thursday on whether to cite Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg with contempt of Congress.
claiming that he has failed to comply with a subpoena. The subpoena has to do with the gathering of information by the Judiciary subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which has been investigating whether the executive branch coordinated with social media companies to limit posts on issues like Covid and vaccines.
According to the committee’s report, “To date, Meta has produced only documents between Meta and external entities and a small subset of relevant internal documents.
The Committee has a particular need for Meta’s internal documents, which would shed light on how Meta understood, evaluated, and responded to the Executive Branch’s requests or directives to censor content, as well as Meta’s decision-making process to censor viewpoints in the modern town square.” If the contempt citation is approved, it would then go to the full House, which would refer it to the Justice Department.
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