Also I'd like to point out... as much as Facebook rightfully gets shat on for its censorship.... Mark Zuckerberg was absolutely right when he was in Congress saying this:
(starts around 1:47)
If you can't bear to listen to her... I made a transcription.
AOC: Do you see a problem here with the complete lack of fact checking on political advertisements?
Zuckerberg: Well Congresswoman I think lying is bad and I think if you were to run an ad that had a lie that would be bad. That's different from it being, in our position, the right thing to do to prevent your constituents or people in an election from seeing that you lied and-
AOC: *interrupting him again* So you won't take down lies or you will take down lies? It's just a pretty simple yes or no.
Zuckerberg: Congresswoman. In a democracy I think people should see for themselves what politicians they may or may not vote for are saying so they can-
AOC: *interrupts again* So you won't take them down.
Zuckerberg: -judge their character for themselves.
AOC: So you may flag that it's wrong but you won't take them down?
Zuckerbeg: Congresswoman it depends on the context that it shows up, organic posts, ads, the-
AOC: *interrupts some more*
So this whole statement:
"I think lying is bad and I think if you were to run an ad that had a lie that would be bad. That's different from it being, in our position, the right thing to do to prevent your constituents or people in an election from seeing that you lied and in a democracy I think people should see for themselves what politicians they may or may not vote for are saying so they can judge their character for themselves." - Mark Zuckerberg
It seems actually... pretty agreeable to me when it comes to political speech and probably should be the policy of social media
PLATFORMS in regards to political speech.
And with what was reported recently, apparently Mark Zuckerberg reiterated those claims in an interview that will air on Fox News later this week.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview airing Thursday he doesn’t think his company should be the “arbiter of truth” of what’s said online after Twitter attached fact-checking links to a few of President Trump’s posts for the first time this week.
www.washingtontimes.com
"You know, I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online. I think, in general, private companies probably shouldn’t be, or especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that." - Mark Zuckerberg
Keep in mind... while Facebook is partially responsible for the mess they're in, a lot of the impetus for them to change is due to politicians and while there's bipartisan pressure in some regards depending on the issue and with things like foreign interference some definitely legitimate concerns, it's still the government and mainly the US Congress that pushes for regulation of Big Tech Platforms to censor speech for *reasons.*
It's always beautiful to see intelligent and ambitious entrepreneurs de-evolve into crony capitalists!
www.politico.com
