Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against calls for strict social media censorship and argued in support of the right to"free expression" on his platform in a Thursday speech at Georgetown University.
Zuckerberg defended his platform against the criticism, but admitted that Facebook doesn't"fact-check" political ads."I don't think it's right for platforms to censor politicians or the news in a Democracy," the billionaire entrepreneur said."And we're not an outlier here. The other major internet platforms and the vast majority of media also run these same ads.
"We intentionally made a Facebook ad with false claims and submitted it to Facebook's ad platform to see if it'd be approved. It got approved quickly and the ad is now running on Facebook," Warren wrote in a Twitter post to explain the experiment.
Truth should rule... anyone found deliberately spread fakes news should be jailed and yes that includes presidents,
I just cancelled my Facebook account. Not that anyone cares, however, he is the embodiment of the narcissism that is rampant in America. That is reason enuf.
Money 💰 follow the money.
I want a world where Zuckerberg isn't a gazillionaire.
Ok. Then the Media should just start printing stories about Zuckerberg that may or may not be true. Let’s see how quickly he takes them to court. Sorry Mark the public would be quite amused. You don’t care then neither do we.
Then why do you have Community standards for
So maybe he should be sued anytime a false ad or lie causes harm or damage to ANYONE
Why not post some fact checking alongside the political ad?
Yeah, we can't have companies telling us the truth about their products. How would that work? Consumers would then be making 'informed' decisions and Fuckerberg can't have that.
DeleteFacebook
Yea, but the tech companies are conduits for pushing these “news” to unwitting users that did not ask for them.
This dweeb has way to much influence and power.
I guess it’s okay to post lies as long as the lies aren’t about him. What silly statement by a smart man..
Zuckerberg is in trumps pocket.
DeleteFacebook
The Left is always for censorship...
Yes, Zuck, we want a world with no standards or regulations or ethics or rules because, more than anything, we want you to be super rich and powerful.
Tech companies shouldn’t be any kind of judge.
He right, for a first. Still won’t be using FB.
Thanks Mark & facebook!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Finally one tech CEO who stands up for free speech & doesn’t want to censor what ideas I can read. The only speech that should be banned (& referred to law enforcement) is illegal speech.
He's delusional. We've been making our own judgment for a millennium based on trial and error. This looks like Zuckerberg is engulfed in his own psych-op that fb was desperately trying to cover. Zuck has sold out America as well.
The perfect cash cow. The profiteering of the Freedom of Speech. He has hit the mother load. I’ll bet if law makers pass a law to make it illegal to profit off political advertising, Zuck would certainly be saying something else.
He’s afraid of the socialists now who hate billionaires and want to break up FB.
Ever yes we do. Totally fab up with lies and corruption and fat cats like Zuckerberg whonallow them to proliferate. Sorry, but he cannot abnigat responsibility.
I can’t speak for those with extreme political bias who want to dictate with their political foes can and can’t say, but I agree with Mark on this
Call me old fashioned but I want my politicians and news media outlets to be 100% factual, not propaganda, and morally and ethically sound. That's it. I don't think there is one person that will agree to be lied to. If you find one......RUN🏃🏃🏃
Fk Zuckerberg
This guy is utterly pathetic and incompetent. Who has he been talking to? Who wants to live a lie? Facebook sucks.
Bullshit! I do.
dumpFacebook
Do people go to the Facebook for NEWS 😂
How did such a loser get to start Facebook: it boggles the mind
I'm off FB . For a week and dont miss it.
The great man
I do want that world.
as opposed to the kind of world where ppl post/disseminate things that tech companies judge to be 100% false?
Who knew? Mark Zuckerberg just made Joseph Goebbels smile!
Great. So have an independent research firm fact-check the basics. This isn't that hard. We're all used to spin, but you're letting fake accounts and corrosive lies ruin your platform, Mr. Zuckerberg. Our democracy is at stake.
natscloset In a fundamental way, he's declaring his commitment to not taking responsibility. It's adolescent: all the freedom without the responsibility his spoils naturally demand.
Regulate Russian owned Facebook.
What a horrible world where things are true.
Another king of all media- we have one already in the WH!
Wrong. Not in my world.
Kinda do
It's evolution. It is new, and society needs time to adapt. But online speech is the same as in-person speech. A free society is only free with freedom of speech. And this is true online as well. There will never be a censor I put my trust in. This is part of being an adult.
DeleteFacebook
That is why you can't trust FB as a news source.
Millions of Americans actually want to dictate what people can and can’t say. In fact, it’s now ilegal to say certain things in NY. But the biggest problem are all those Nazis running rampant everywhere..
That's a pretty frail argument. There's wiggle room here. How about just weeding out the blatant disregard for accuracy and the facts?
It's the things (re:cash) you know are false and inflammatory, that you post knowingly, that we have a problem with. Yeah Zuckerberg, My Space though they were hot stuff too.
There are definitely people who are fine with FakeNews as long as it fits their party’s ideology.
People don't want a tool that presents garbage as if it were factual information. They will abandon the tool.
facebook & MarkZuckerberg ...Lesson of the day: Here is the perfect example of how 'worship of money' corrupts the soul. Comment: I'm pretty sure that facebook could come up with an algorithm or identification that identifies lies or identifies WHO is professing the claim.
oh is that why he censored & banned so many free speaking Americans? EnemyOfFreeSpeech
Yes I do! Especially in politics! Don't allow falsehoods.
Can't stand his slimey face deletefacebook zucksucks
I also don't want a world where tech companies allow people to post things that are demonstrably 100% false, slanderous, and libelous.
Worried but apparently not enough to drop the known-false ads because it would not bring in as much money, huh? If you know it's false and you STILL let it onto your site, you're complicit.
No, but I think we should expect they take down information that had been proven false.
Another reason to leave FB...
fuckzuck
People don’t want a world where tech companies/oligarchs conspire with the US Gov’t’s surveillance apparatus to violate our (among other things) 4th Amendment rights.
I do.
He would be correct!
Mark, there is a big difference between 100% true and a blatant, bold faced lie; and you know it!
How about we settle for things that are demonstrably true?
Then do your responsibility, be FAIR enough, no favorites just because of money!
He’s become a GOP pawn. Zuckerberg has traded his moral compass for money. Shameful.
Do people want you to post lies?
You are a Russian bot
We don’t want a world where people can blatantly lie in ads either.
FuckMarkZuckerbaby
Is that what you were told while lunching with trump's cronies?
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Lets get something that is better than Facebook that has some integrity. This is only MarkZuckerberg trying to fill his coffers like his hero Trump. He is afraid he might not be one of the richest people in the world anymore, what a joke, a liar and a crook.
What a cop out. Zuckerberg is just a greedy bastard. That’s all.
We do want the truth! No more fake new MarkZuckerberg! Are you serious?
We don’t want a world where socio-politically conscious statements/posts get you put in “Facebook Jail” either. Glad you did it this time, Zuck..I discovered Twitter. ✨💫😉
Uh- yeah we do
How about 100% false?
No but you darn well shouldn't be able to post things tech companies know to be 100% false!
Well Twitter does it
Jfc
80% of what people post is bullshit anyway
I think in a certain sense providing also a certain sense of room for imagination is important. That doesn't make me an advocate of fake news, I just know that mythology has always been a part of culture, that it can shape us too.
And we don't want tech companies to allow people to post things that are 100% false. Seems like some middle ground would be pretty easy to find here.
We don’t?
Zuck is an idiot, this is what happens when you put a child in charge of a multi-billion dollar company! facebook
Good argument for government regulation
Wake up people! DeleteFacebookNow
That is why he's been getting all the negative publicity. He's against the online dictatorship.
People don’t want a world with lame Facebook.
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