In an interview with Fox News anchor Dana Perino, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebuked Twitter for its decision to tag two of President Donald Trump’s tweets about mail-in voting with fact-check links, saying that private companies “shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth.”
His comments referred to the first Trump tweet that was marked by Jack Dorsey’s ‘integrity’ team, led by the man who thinks people on the right are Nazis.
Zuckerberg was roundly mocked and insulted on Twitter for his comment, but he stuck to it.
“Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,” Zuckerberg said.
DOESN’T VIOLATE THE RULES
On Friday, when Twitter hit Trump’s tweet a third time, Mr. Zuckerberg said a post by President Donald Trump in which he says “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” does not violate the company’s policies and will remain online.
“I disagree strongly with how the President spoke about this, but I believe people should be able to see this for themselves because ultimately accountability for those in positions of power can only happen when their speech is scrutinized out in the open,” Zuckerberg said.
He doesn’t understand what the President meant. The President was simply saying that looting leads to shooting, and it does.
Facebook decided to leave the post up because the company’s position is that it “should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause an imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies,” Zuckerberg wrote.
“Personally, I have a visceral negative reaction to this kind of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric,” Zuckerberg said in his post. “But I’m responsible for reacting not just in my personal capacity but as the leader of an institution committed to free expression.”
Maybe if he understood what the President was saying, he wouldn’t have had such a visceral reaction.
It’s odd that he’s taking this stand since his fact-checkers are brutal, very hard on the right. At least he’s leaving the President’s comments up.
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A degenerated society that craves a sterile risk free safety über alles Karenocracy can’t handle free speech.
I haven’t talked to pappy since sobama was (s)elected and he is on Fakebook but I don’t do CCP platforms or support the CPUSA in any way shape or form.
No they censor our comments they are so full of crap. I’m banned today for free speech comment on imports to Minneapolis
Zuck is engaging in a little war of words with his social media competitor, Facebook fact checks and censors just as much as Twitter.
Tongue in cheek coming from the Z. The fact is anything that is not in line with “their” – MSM, and social media – agenda is “fat checked” or zapped…Twitter’s fact checkers in this case need a “fact check”. The wide spread ignorance is diminishing among those with at least one operational brain cell as they, the media(?) entities, try to “expand their horizons” in their propaganda/mind control activities to “control” the one narrative…You and your readers may have noticed that ALL the relevant information that Judicial Watch has obtained via subpoena that is relevant to the corruption and criminal wrongdoing of the last administration are COMPLETELY IGNORED by the MSM….as they down played and demonized WikiLeaks, whose “releases” have NEVER been debunked or repudiated…