House panel plans to move forward with Zuckerberg contempt vote Thursday. House panel will vote on

The House Judiciary Committee has announced it will hold a hearing on Thursday to begin contempt proceedings against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Committee members will use the hearing to mark up its contempt resolution against Zuckerberg. A successful contempt vote would be both symbolic and used as a tool to compel Zuckerberg to turn over documents but also could have legal implications if the Meta CEO continues to resist cooperation and the courts decide to take it up. For example several people such as Steve Bannon Mark Meadows and members of Congress were held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas related to the House January committees investigation. For many months Meta has operated in good faith with this committees sweeping requests for information. We began sharing documents before the committees February subpoena and have continued to do so. To date we have delivered over pages of documents both internal and external and have made nearly a dozen current and former employees available to discuss external and internal matters including some scheduled this very week. Meta will continue to comply as we have thus far with good faith requests from the committee Stone added. The House would have to vote this out of committee and then GOP leadership would need to schedule this for a vote on the House floor. Many others have made it to court many others didnt and a federal grand jury found him guilty and sentenced him to fourth months in prison. The Meta CEO has not commented on the allegations but a Meta spokesperson said the company has been cooperative with the committee’s request for information for several months and is continuing to cooperate with the Committee’s request. The committee is investigating whether the company censored free speech on its platform and has issued a series of subpoenas to the company for documents related to that investigation. The company has not responded to any of the subpoenas and a spokesperson said they are working with the committees to find out if there is any evidence that the company is censoring free speech in the first place or if the allegations are based on a political vendetta. The hearing is expected to last about an hour. The panel is scheduled to meet on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. and will then vote on whether or not to hold Zuckerberg in contempt for failing to comply. The vote will be held at 11:00 a.M. and if it is successful it will go to the floor of the House of Representatives where it will be heard by a vote of the full House of Representative and then a vote will take place on the contempt resolution. The resolution would be used to compel the company to hand over documents related the panel’s investigation into the company’s censorship of free speech and other issues on the platform. The meeting will be open to the public and the public can ask questions about what the company did or did not do to ensure that free speech is being protected on the site. The Committee is also expected to hold a meeting on Friday to discuss how to proceed with the investigation and how the company plans to respond to the subpoena for documents relating to the Meta platform and other matters related to free speech. The hearings are scheduled to last an hour and a half and will be followed by a press conference.