Conservative activist Robby Starbuck is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta, claiming its artificial intelligence chatbot defamed him by falsely claiming he is a “white nationalist”; that he was arrested on Jan. 6, 2021, during the Capitol Hill protest of Congress certifying the 2020 presidential election; and that he had been sued for defamation.
“One of the biggest companies on the face of the earth has engaged in a blatant pattern of defamation against me where they framed me as a criminal who pled guilty to a crime and engaged in Holocaust denial. None of it is even remotely true,” Starbuck told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. “It’s a fiction created by Meta’s malicious AI.”
Starbuck, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Capital Markets Initiative who has successfully pressured many companies to reject “woke” diversity,…
