Did Zuckerberg lie under oath?

Recent revelations about Facebook’s collection of user audio data are fueling talk in Washington (DC) that company CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have misled Congress about the firm’s privacy practices during a Senate hearing in 2018. Zuckerberg at the time dismissed a question about whether the company used “audio obtained from mobile devices to enrich personal information about its users," calling it a “conspiracy theory.” But recent reporting that the company until just recently paid contractors to transcribe some users’ audio is raising eyebrows about his remarks on the Hill. Sen Gary Peters (D-MI) pressed Zuckerberg on the exchange in a letter Aug 15, suggesting the tech mogul’s testimony was “at best, incomplete.” Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, “If the latest reports are true…then Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Inc. may well have perjured themselves under 18 USC s1621” of the federal penal code, and “should be held to account if they violated the law.” Sen Cruz added: "Big Tech cannot lie to the American people any longer."