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> Facebook lied in Congressional hearings who exactly lied? and why aren't they charged if it's the case?
by yodsanklai 5y ago
> Facebook lied in Congressional hearings
who exactly lied? and why aren't they charged if it's the case?
- nonameiguess 5y agoI should have worded that differently. I have no idea if Facebook actually lied. The point is that's what the whistleblower is alleging. That's the only thing being alleged that is actually illegal. so a whistleblower against a cable news station would need to also be alleging that to have anything to whistleblow about. Just claiming that they spread misinformation and sow internal national discord may be bad, but it's not illegal. Note a separate possible key difference, though. It's not illegal for US citizens to sow internal discord, and it's technically not "illegal" for foreign intelligence services and troll farms to do it, either, since they aren't subject to US law, but when foreign actors try to sow internal discord in the US, the US government has the legal right to step in and attempt to stop them. They don't have that right when US citizens or US press operations are doing it.