Trump Must Not Let Meta Avoid Upcoming FTC Antitrust Trial
Washington, DC — At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, testified that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went to extraordinary lengths to gain access to a foreign market, including creating custom censorship tools, permanently banning someone on U.S. soil and briefing a foreign government about sensitive AI technology. Wynn-Williams also repeatedly testified that Zuckerberg lied to members of Congress about many of these acts. Zuckerberg has also lobbied President Donald Trump to help Meta avoid a trial scheduled to begin on April 14 in the landmark antitrust lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission.
The following is a statement from Emily Peterson-Cassin, corporate power director at Demand Progress Education Fund:
“Today’s hearing showed that Mark Zuckerberg is willing to sacrifice the privacy Meta users, America’s status as a leader in tech and even our national security in order to pad his bottom line. Monopoly power is what fuels Meta and Zuckerberg’s dangerous sense of impunity. The FTC’s trial this month is an unprecedented chance to curb Meta’s social media monopoly and rein in Mark Zuckerberg’s ceaseless efforts to sell out the American people. President Trump and his gaggle of billionaire advisers must not let Zuckerberg off the hook by weakening the FTC with attempted illegal firings and then pressuring the remaining commissioners to settle with Meta.”