The panel is scheduled to consider the resolution today as part of its conspiracy theory that the Biden administration has worked with tech executives to suppress conservative viewpoints on social media.
A copy of the contempt report asserts that Zuckerberg and Meta don’t seem to have taken the allegations seriously and "willfully refused" to comply in full with a congressional subpoena.
The report further alleges that Meta has "played a central role in this censorship scheme, frequently acquiescing and catering to the government’s censorship requests and demands."
Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan said that the committee wanted the same sorts of documents that it got from ER which include internal communications where staff talk about the government pressuring them to take down certain comments.
He had sent subpoenas in February to Apple, Facebook and Google requesting information about content moderation.
“We think the same thing went on in Facebook, but we haven’t got those communications. So that’s what we’ve been pressing for. And if we have to go to contempt on Thursday, we will do that,” he said.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company has offered up several high-level executives for interviews and delivered tens of thousands of documents to committee investigators.
“For many months, Meta has operated in good faith with this committee’s sweeping requests for information. We began sharing documents before the committee’s February subpoena and have continued to do so,” Stone said in a statement Tuesday.
“To date we have delivered over 53,000 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," he added. "Meta will continue to comply, as we have thus far, with good faith requests from the committee.”