Rep. Matt Gaetz says Mark Zuckerberg lied to Congress ... in 2018

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Rep. Matt Gaetz says Mark Zuckerberg
lied to Congress ... in 2018

Coincidentally, his claims come just days before
a high-profile antitrust hearing.


Karissa Bell, @karissabe
July 27, 2020




Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images



Days before Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear at a
high-profile antitrust hearing, a member of Congress has
accused the Facebook CEO of lying to Congress, and asking
the Department of Justice to investigate.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said Monday that he sent a criminal
referral to Attorney General Bill Barr, asking for an
investigation into Zuckerberg for “making materially false
statements to Congress while under oath” a full two years
after the fact.

Citing Zuckerberg’s 2018 testimony, Gaetz says that Zuckerberg
lied to Congress when he described Facebook as
“politically neutral.” He said that a recent report from Project Veritas,
the right-wing activist group known for dubious “undercover”
investigations, proves the social network unfairly censors
conservatives. Project Veritas has a history of hidden camera
“stings” that use deceptively-edited video to fuel outrage against
YouTube executives, CNN, George Soros and other liberal boogeyman.
(Notably, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe pleaded guilty to
misdemeanor charges in 2010 after being arrested for trying to
tamper with a Senator’s phone.)


Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment,
but claims that the social network is biased against conservatives
is nothing new. Republican officials have long accused Facebook
(and other social media companies)
of discriminating against their viewpoints.

Gaetz makes no mention of the fact that Zuckerberg and Facebook
have repeatedly declined to fact check or otherwise apply their
rules to President Trump, and that an official review into conservatives’
grievances has so far turned up little evidence. Posts from
conservative media also consistently rank among the most
widely-shared stories on the platform, and multiple reports suggest
Facebook has in fact shut down proposed changes that may
disproportionately affect conservatives.

The letter comes days before a high-profile antitrust hearing,
scheduled for Wednesday, when Zuckerberg will appear, along
with his counterparts from Apple, Google and Amazon.
That Gaetz, a member of the committee, would send his
letter just days before the hearing suggests he plans to grill
Zuckerberg on more than just Facebook’s market dominance.


FULL STORY HERE

Senator Josh Hawley
November 17 at 5:42 PM

Under oath, Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook DOES
have “tools” to track its users across the internet, across
platforms, across accounts - all without user knowledge.
I ask how many times this tool has been used domestically
against Americans. But Zuck won’t say. A Facebook
whistleblower tells me it’s called Centra. Example below.
Zuckerberg said he couldn’t recall the name...
he’s only the company CEO, after all…

This same whistleblower tells me Facebook uses its
internal project management system, “Tasks,” to
coordinate its censorship efforts with Twitter and Google.
Twitter and Google routinely suggest censorship
topics - hashtags, individuals, websites, many of them
conservative - and Facebook logs them for follow-up on Tasks.
But Zuckerberg REFUSES under oath to turn over list of
Twitter or Google mentions on Tasks.

Ever wonder how a user banned or locked on one platform
often gets quickly banned or locked on the others?

This is how.

It's called "Centra"

Mark Zuckerberg admits using a secret tool
on Facebook



NOVEMBER 18, 2020


Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly admitted that a
tool is used to keep track of user behaviour online during a
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on November 17.
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley confronted Zuckerberg
where he questioned him about two internal tools, brought to
his attention by a Facebook whistleblower.

The tools that came into questions were Tasks and Centra.
They are used to coordinate censorship wit Twitter and Google
and monitor Facebook user activity across the internet, respectively.

Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Twitter wrote,
”Zuckerberg admits @Facebook DOES have ‘tools’ to track its users
across the internet, across platforms, across accounts – all without
user knowledge. I ask how many times this tool has been used
domestically against Americans. Zuck won’t say.” He then
attached a screenshot of the internal tool.

Zuckerberg, however, did not confirm “whether Facebook ever
uses Centra to track and monitor American citizens.” Hawley
further noted, “Mark Zuckerberg under oath to me today:
I don’t know, I can’t recall, I don’t remember, I’ll follow up later,
let me get back to you.”

According to the whistleblower that Hawley mentioned, the tool
Centra is used to track user behaviour across the internet without
their knowledge. It tracks different profiles that a user visits,
their message recipients, their linked accounts, the pages they
visit around the web that have Facebook buttons.

Senator Hawley also spoke about internal platform tasks that
Facebook uses for co-ordinated content moderation with other
companies. However Zuckerberg denied the claim.

Zuckerberg said that there were coordination and sharing signals
on security-related topics about terrorism, images of child
exploitation and foreign election inference.

Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were testified
about their platforms, misinformation and the 2020 election
before the members of the Senate Judiciary committee on
November 17.

BREAKING NEW, INDIA, WORLD

FULL STORY HERE






This is the Vid that actually caught my eye...

"Under OATh,
Zuckerberg ADMITS!"
(users can't do nothing)
Nov 30, 2020

****

Yet another reason I am so delighted
that I NEVER had a FakeBook Acct...