"This is Jeff from Fight for the Future. I wish we could disclose our sources for this, but unfortunately we agreed not to. Multiple sources on the hill have reported that Facebook is THE tech company lobbying in favor of CISA, several offices have heard from Facebook that they support CISA.
"Facebook themselves has declined to take up our offers to take a public position thus far. The nature of this lobbying game is that people leak information because they can't come out and reveal who they talk to and give information to. I know that sucks, but we decided it was better to put out the information we can than to just keep it to ourselves. And, what they are doing now matters to what ends up happening. So, that's why we're asking Facebook to tell us what their position is and to come clean.
"Facebook was probably the loudest supporter of early versions of CISA, until it became unpopular. Then they went silent. Unlike all the other big tech companies that have come out against CISA, Facebook is still silent. Their top Senate lobbyist comes straight from the office of CISA sponsor Sen. Richard Burr, and "cybersecurity issues" is listed on her lobbying disclosures. The publicly available information about Facebook's position on CISA just supports what we know -- Facebook is one of the major forces pushing for this bill to pass."
Facebook is an utter joke. They have put a lot of effort over the years into locking down easily minable api endpoints for "their" data (i.e. no authentication tokens), only to be able to make it available for such backroom dealing.
Luckily, humans will always be the weakest links in these systems and you can get as many auth tokens you want for checked in public repos.
In Cory's case the lack of evidence is a little surprising, but not for FFTF. I had no idea that FFTF was take seriously enough to get to the front page of boingboing or HN.
