OTTAWA — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being summoned by a parliamentary committee for the third time in four years — this time over the tech company’s threat to…
Zuckerberg has repeatedly ignored summons from Ottawa before, first in 2019 when an ethics committee was studying users’ privacy on social media platforms, and again in 2021 when the heritage committee was studying an Australian law similar to Bill C-18.
Committee members also agreed to undergo a new study about what they see as an abuse of power by tech giants from around the world. The study speaks to “larger issues of how very large companies use anti-, monopolistic tactics to seek to influence parliaments to meet their desires,” he said.Article content
Housefather’s motion received the support of other Liberal MPs, the NDP and Bloc Quebecois, while Conservative MPs on the committee abstained from the vote.
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