Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project today released the following statement in response to a new lawsuit from Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, which seeks to hold Mark Zuckerberg liable for Facebook’s abuse of user data and for his role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

“Enforcers must hold corporations and powerful individuals accountable when they violate the law,” said Katherine Van Dyck, Senior Legal Counsel at the American Economic Liberties Project. “Mark Zuckerberg was personally involved in day-to-day operations and policy decisions at Facebook that grossly violated user privacy, and he is directly responsible for the dangerous leak of personal data of more than 70 million Facebook users in the United States to Cambridge Analytica. Mr. Zuckerberg cannot hide behind the veil of Meta, and the D.C. Attorney General is rightly using the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedure Act to hold Mr. Zuckerberg to account. Attorneys general across the United States should follow his lead.”

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.