Facebook will not be 'arbiters of truth', says Zuckerberg after Trump threat
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that his company ''will not be the arbiter of truth'' after US PresidentDonald Trumpescalateda warwith rival social media platformTwitterover that company’s efforts to beginfactcheckingsome of Trump’s posts.
In an interview, Zuckerberg said ''I just believe strongly thatFacebookshouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online. Private companies probably should not be, especially these platform companies, should notbe in the position of doing that.''
Meanwhile, Trump after sharply criticising Twitter for fact-checking his tweetsigned an executive order that intended to limit the freedom of tech organisations over the content posted on their mediums.
On Tuesday, Twitter for the first time fact-checked Trump's post which claimed mail-in ballots are " subsequently fraudulent". Twitter had called the claims as "unsubstantiated" and put a warning label in the post.
Two years after admitting under political pressure thatFacebookmust do more to prevent disinformation campaigns on its platform, founderMark Zuckerbergsaid that the company should step away from regulating online speech.
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In March 2018, a whistleblowerrevealedthat Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that worked with Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign, harvested millions ofFacebookprofiles of US voters for use in targeting political ads.
The company later acknowledged thathackers hadscrapedinformation from profiles of more than 2 billion users worldwide.
Those developments saw a contrite Zuckerbergsummonedbefore Congress in the spring of 2018, where he apologized for allowing imposter accounts with foreign backers to target American voters with advertising meant to polarize political opinion.