Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO recently expressed contradiction against Twitter's recent move involving President Donald Trump's tweet. Specifically, he said that social media networks should not fact-check what political leaders are posting on their respective accounts. His remarks came after "Squawk Boss" co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked him for comments on the decision of Twitter to begin fact-checking President Donald Trump's tweets.

The move of Twitter took place early this week after President Trump posted on his Twitter account that mail-in ballots would be "substantially fraudulent." Specifically, on early Tuesday, the social media giant declined to sensor or caution users following Trump's tweets of reportedly baseless claims that Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC should be an investigation for his former staffer's death.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg explained during an interview with Sorkin which was aired on Thursday morning, he does not think that Facebook or any internet platform as a whole, should be "arbiters of truth." He also added that speech is among the most delicate parts of equality and people need to see what political leaders are saying.


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Even though Facebook uses independent fact-checkers for the review of its content on its social networks Zuckerberg said, the point of having fact-checkers is to certainly capture "the worst of the worst stuff."

He also said that the program's main point is not just to analyze and describe words on something that can be true or false. When it comes to political speech, he added, he again, thinks he wants to give great respect to the political procedure, not to mention, political speech.

Incidentally, Facebook announced late last year, that it would be permitting politicians to run ads on the platform even if their promotional content would include misinformation. But despite this, the Zuckerberg elaborated that it had lines that no one, even political leaders, is allowed to cross. Meaning, no one is allowed to use the social media platform to harm themselves or cause violence.

No one is allowed either, the company CEO added, to post any fabrication that could result in voter suppression. Zuckerberg continued that there are clear lines mapping to particular harms and impairment that can be done where the content can be taken down. 

Generally, though, he added, they try to be more on the side of providing people with a voice and freedom to express themselves.

The House Speaker's Stance

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said Facebook is just pandering to the White House "for tax breaks."

Pelosi's comments came after Zuckerberg explained Facebook's decision not to add a label to the post of President Trump regarding the mail-in ballots that its equally famous competitor decided fact-check. The house speaker, during her weekly media conference, related the stance of the Facebook CEO on the issue of editorial behavior on social media, as a way for them to guarantee the social media firm is "making money, evading taxes and regulation."

Pelosi continued that the business model of Facebook, reportedly, is to falsify the facts, not to mention, be a platform to make that happen. More so, the House Speaker said he social media firm is also concealing freedom of speech, which, she pointed out, is undeniably a violation of all the things "freedom of speech" has stood for.

Zuckerberg for his part expressed how his company backs the freedom of speech through the platform while at the same time, fighting dangerously misleading information after he engaged in a controversy in late 2019 for changing its rulings in terms of allowing political leaders to run ads that have not been fact-checked independently.

Nevertheless, Pelosi argued that everything that Facebook cares about is a monetary benefit "at the expense of truth."

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