Maxine Waters to Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Perhaps you believe you are above the law’
Style Magazine Newswire | 10/24/2019, 12:30 p.m.
Democratic Chairwoman Maxine Waters pulled no punches while questioning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during this week’s hearing on Capitol Hill.
According to Fast Company, on Wednesday, Waters slammed Zuckerberg for his company’s practices after he showed up as the sole witness before the House Financial Services Committee hearing on Facebook’s proposed digital currency.
The Committee also wanted to learn more about the social media giant’s plans to combat election interference in the 2020 contest. But before anyone could really get into any of that, Waters kicked off the hearing by chastising the billionaire CEO for his company’s lack of diversity, the anti-trust investigations into Facebook, its digital currency Libra, and the company’s impact on society as a whole.
Waters posed concerns about last week’s announcement that Facebook would not fact-check political ads, contending that Zuckerberg had done so to make a profit off of political ads even in cases where that resulted in “massive voter suppression.”
“You announced a new ad policy that gives politicians a license to lie so you can earn more money off this division, I suppose,” she said. “Your claim to promote freedom of speech does not ring true Mr. Zuckerberg.”
