Meta may be prosecuted for contempt of the U.S. Congress

The management of Meta Corporation may be held liable for refusing to provide information to the U.S. Congress about possible censorship of information in social networks.

Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives Jim Jordan back in February prepared an order requiring the management of the corporation to provide the necessary materials relating to the censorship of content in social networks. This is, in particular, about “service records regarding government statements, documents containing conclusions and recommendations on the possible application of enforcement measures to disinformation campaigns.”

Meta turned over “more than 50,000 pages of documents,” but they did not comply with the Judiciary Committee’s request, which is considered contempt of Congress. “If Meta does not fully comply, the committee will have to force the company to comply with this order,” Jordan said.

Meta’s social media accounts have been accused of censoring content before. In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan last year, the head of the corporation Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the social networks in 2020 at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation restricted access to an article about scandals related to Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

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