Apparently, Facebook cannot be blamed for its users’ sometimes extreme and misleading content.
at all. Private companies should not be the “arbiter of truth” online, he said in an interview with Fox News host Dana Perino after Twitter flagged two of President Donald Trump’s tweets with fact-check warnings on Tuesday. The label was added after Trump tweeted false information about mail-in-ballots, which he has repeatedly claimed are “substantially fraudulent.”. “You know, I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.
When Zuckerberg was presented with the information, he decided not to take action, insisting that Facebook cannot be blamed for its users’ sometimes extreme and misleading content. But a 2016 presentation, put together by Facebook researcher and sociologist, Monica Lee found a high number of far right extremist groups on the site, and further noted that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools.
Plus, Zuckerberg has himself tried to be the so-called"arbiter of truth" in the past, too, In 2019, Zuckerberg said Facebook would remove content that violated specific community standards, but would ultimately take a hands-off approach to moderating content that did not clearly violate its rules.
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