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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Meta’s Fact-Checking Ban to Joe Rogan: Company Faced ‘Massive Institutional Pressure to Basically Start Censoring Content’
Meta chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan's podcast to defend his recent decision to end fact-checking on the company's platforms.
Meta chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan ‘s podcast to defend his recent decision to end fact-checking on the internet giant’s platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg told Rogan two main events in 2016 triggered the move by Meta (then called Facebook) to institute fact-checking: Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president and Brexit in the U.K. “I think that those were basically these two events where for the first time, we just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds,” Zuckerberg said. “I think part of my reflection looking back on this is, I kind of think in 2016 in the aftermath I gave too much deference to a lot of folks in the media who were basically saying, ‘OK, there’s no way that this guy could have gotten elected except for misinformation.
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