Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s admission he has paused his “Zuckerbucks” scheme ignores that the Biden-Harris administration has adopted and expanded the concept — potentially unlawfully — on a scale that renders Zuckerberg’s involvement unnecessary.
The billionaire repeated his 2022 pledge to discontinue the controversial program in a Monday letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) that appeared written to continue his efforts to placate conservatives — efforts that have included recent overtures to former President Donald Trump.
Yet, the program has been rendered moot after a 2021 Biden-Harris administration executive order requiring the head of every federal agency to develop programs to register voters and to increase voter participation — programs subject to White House approval.
Zuckerberg initially revealed he would pause his efforts “to support electoral infrastructure” after overwhelming public scrutiny concerning if his efforts heavily targeted potential Democrat voters.
That pledge came after the Biden-Harris White House’s executive order.