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Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder and CEO discussed his disdain for Twitter putting a fact-check label on one of President Trump’s tweets, according to Breitbart News.
During an interview with Fox News Channel’s “Daily Briefing,” Zuckerberg said platforms like Facebook and Twitter “shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.”
He also reacted to Trump’s threat to regulate platforms by stating that the government censoring platforms “because they’re worried about censorship doesn’t exactly strike me as the right reflex there.”
Zuckerberg said, “We have a different policy, I think, than Twitter on this.”
He added, “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, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”
“I think a government choosing to censor a platform because they’re worried about censorship doesn’t exactly strike me as the right reflex there.”
