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Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« on: August 27, 2024, 10:06:19 AM »
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Zuckerberg said senior Biden administration officials "repeatedly pressured" Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to "censor" content in 2021. "I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken," he wrote to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). "Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction -- and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again," Zuckerberg added.

The Meta CEO also said the company "shouldn't have demoted" a New York Post story about corruption allegations involving President Biden's family ahead of the 2020 election while waiting for fact-checkers to review it.

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Zuckerberg also said in Monday's letter that he does not plan to make contributions to local jurisdictions to support election infrastructure this cycle, like he did during the 2020 election.


Remember when saying that big tech was influencing the election by burying relevant stories was a conspiracy theory that spreading would, in full-circle irony, would get you banned? And remember when people found out that Zuck spent a billion dollars on strategic counties? Or maybe not because they buried that story?

Enough time has passed that we can acknowledge these things and pretend it was always thus.

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Re: Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2024, 10:09:49 AM »
I mentioned this in the "2024" thread, and said that if it weren't for Elon Musk, we would be in a world of disinformation and censorship *expletive deleted*it. X is the only free speech zone in all of big tech social media. Just think what we'd be seeing (or not seeing because they know better) as "truth" if X were still twitter.
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Re: Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2024, 12:18:23 PM »
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Re: Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2024, 12:18:28 AM »
Wasn't he brought before Congress and testified under oath that this wasn't happening, when everyone knew that it was?
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Re: Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2024, 08:15:28 AM »
Quote from: The Car Guy on August 30, 2024, 12:18:28 AM
Wasn't he brought before Congress and testified under oath that this wasn't happening, when everyone knew that it was?

If you lie to a liar who knows you're lying is it still a lie?
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Re: Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2024, 06:22:01 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on August 30, 2024, 08:15:28 AM
If you lie to a liar who knows you're lying is it still a lie?

Maybe Zuck should change his name to "Harcourt Fenton Mudd" !  >:D  :facepalm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCiw0wD44U
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Re: Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2024, 09:47:29 PM »
Quote from: JTHunter on August 30, 2024, 06:22:01 PM
Maybe Zuck should change his name to "Harcourt Fenton Mudd" !  >:D  :facepalm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCiw0wD44U

Mudd at least looked human.  Zuckerberg looks like a android.
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Re: Zuckerberg apologizes for installing Biden
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2024, 09:43:18 PM »
Quote from: RocketMan on August 30, 2024, 09:47:29 PM
Mudd at least looked human.  Zuckerberg looks like a android.

Yeah.  Brent Spiner did that sallow, pasty-faced look quite well.  :rofl:
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