The attack followed a speech the Facebook CEO gave at Georgetown University explaining his philosophy on free speech on the platform.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and 2020 presidential candidate , and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook.Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., took another jab at Mark Zuckerberg Thursday, accusing theCEO of helping Donald Trump win the presidential election in 2016 and aiding his re-election at a profit.
"Facebook is actively helping Trump spread lies and misinformation," Warren said in a tweet, adding that Facebook is "unprepared" to deal with the 2020 election.at Georgetown University. Zuckerberg defended his decision to err on the side of allowing more speech on Facebook, rather than less, even as the company has been attacked by both political parties for the types of content it hosts.
Political ads have been a sticking point for Facebook in the past few weeks after the company said itplaced by politicians in a response to a request from the Biden campaign to remove an ad with unsubstantiated claims placed by Trump. Zuckerberg said in the speech that he's gone as far as to consider eliminating political ads altogether, but said it would still leave ambiguity on where to draw the line.
"There are many more ads about issues than there ads about elections. Do we ban ads about healthcare, immigration or women's empowerment?" he said. "If you're not going to ban those, does it really make sense to give everyone else a voice in political debates except for the candidates themselves?"
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