Republican lawmakers issues warnings about far-left Facebook board billionaire John Arnold

Ahead of the election, Republican lawmakers are raising alarm bells about Texas billionaire John Arnold, who was appointed to Meta’s board earlier this year — warning he could undermine the efforts to keep speech free and open on Facebook ahead of the presidential election.Arnold, who is worth an estimated $2.9 billion according to Forbes, has spent tens of millions of dollars bankrolling left-wing causes, including bail reform in New York State and George Soros-affiliated organizations that slam “disinformation.”“John Arnold is a far left radical who funded pro-criminal projects in Indiana and pro-censorship organizations nationwide.His board appointment should make every patriotic American nervous about Big Tech interfering in the 2024 presidential election, just like they did last cycle,” Rep.

Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told The Post.“Mark Zuckerberg recently wrote to the House Judiciary Committee that he wanted to promote free speech and not manipulate the upcoming election,” Rep.

Dan Bishop (R-NC), a member of the committee, told The Post of the Meta CEO. “I’d like to believe that, but it defies credulity when John Arnold, funder of millions to pro-censorship groups, sits on Meta’s board.Americans deserve to speak freely without the leftist dark money network feeding the censorship industrial complex and working against their right of free expression.”In an August letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg said he would push against censorship after acknowledging Facebook had demoted The Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election, and that it had bowed to pressure by the Biden administration to censor Covid-related content.Zuckerberg wrote that “I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret I was not more outspoken about it.”But Rep.

Greg Steube (R-Fla.), another member of the committee, believes Arnold’s role at Meta signals Zuckerberg may be unwilling to completely move away from censors...