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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, on Wednesday slammed what he called a “woefully inadequate” response from Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to his queries about its policies regarding content that helps people enter the United States illegally – and warned that the company may face a congressional subpoena next year.
“The response from Meta (Facebook) my office received on March 8th is woefully inadequate and fails to address any of the concerns I have regarding the role your company plays in fueling the immigration crisis at our southern border,” Gooden said in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
DOJ WON’T SAY IF IT IS INVESTIGATING FACEBOOK’S ‘FACILITATION’ OF ILLEGAL MIGRATION INTO THE US
June 10, 2021: A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum.
((AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File))
Gooden is one of a number of Republicans who has raised concerns about Facebook’s policies regarding content on illegal immigration. The Tech Transparency Project said in April that it first identified the existence of 50 pages and private groups advertising human smuggling and provided their names to Facebook after the company had asked. While some were deactivated, in September the group said it identified an additional 40 Facebook pages and 17 Facebook groups that openly sell illegal border crossings.
In a response to Gooden and Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., Meta said that it is “working diligently to proactively remove content that offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling on our platforms.”
However, the letter says that under its Human Exploitation Policy, “we do not remove content seeking information on how to cross borders.”
“That policy reflects our conclusion that the best way to help people stay safe is to allow people to ask for help in crossing borders,”…
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