{"id":1215118,"date":"2025-02-07T18:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215118"},"modified":"2025-02-07T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:52:29","slug":"house-democrats-press-mark-zuckerberg-on-metas-policy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1215118","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats press Mark Zuckerberg on Meta\u2019s policy changes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A group of House Democrats are pushing<\/ins><\/a> Mark Zuckerberg on Meta\u2019s recent policy changes, saying they are \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the company\u2019s move to loosen its content moderation rules, end corporate diversity programs and ditch third-party fact checking. In a letter addressed to the Meta CEO, four members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee demanded details about the sweeping changes<\/ins><\/a> Zuckerberg announced last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese policy changes, the timing of which gives the inescapable appearance of currying favor with the Trump Administration, are abhorrent, inconsistent, and dangerous,\u201d the lawmakers wrote<\/ins><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Meta so far hasn\u2019t provided many specifics about how it will implement its new policies, which were announced shortly before President Donald Trump took office. The letter asks Zuckerberg to describe how Trump\u2019s \u201cthreats of retribution against you\u201d may have influenced the decision to end fact-checking on the platform. It also asks if the Facebook founder has \u201chad discussions with anyone representing the Trump Administration regarding the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s antitrust case against Meta.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter further notes that Zuckerberg\u2019s recent statements seem to directly contradict previous remarks he made when the Oversight Board was first created. \u201cThe Oversight Board, once touted as a beacon of accountability, is rendered toothless when Meta itself refuses to adhere to the principles of \u2018trust and safety,\u2019\u201d it says.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers also questioned Zuckerberg about his public statements that corporations need more “masculine energy<\/ins><\/a>\u201d calling it \u201cparticularly strange in light of the fact that Meta\u2019s long time Chief Legal Officer and its current Chief Financial Officer are both women and the three most important committees of your Board of Directors are chaired by women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg was given a February 21, 2025, deadline to respond. \u201cWe don\u2019t have anything further to say beyond all we\u2019ve already communicated over the last weeks,\u201d a Meta spokesperson told Engadget when asked about the letter.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/house-democrats-press-mark-zuckerberg-on-metas-policy-changes-235229672.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of House Democrats are pushing Mark Zuckerberg on Meta\u2019s recent policy changes, saying they are \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the company\u2019s move to loosen its content moderation rules, end corporate diversity programs and ditch third-party fact checking. In a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}