Snopes CEO Chris Richmond said Saturday that the US government is responsible for the review Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, and argued that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was following the system at the time.
“Let's look at the most famous example of Facebook censoring content, and that was Hunter Biden's laptop story. And we say, well, they were the real censors, that's right, who who told Zuckerberg to reduce to achieve that? No, it was So, Facebook went with the government, and the critics found fault, “Richmond told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Saturday.
Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the company will be ending its fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram.
“If Kamala Harris had won, would she have taken these same actions now? No. She agreed with what the government wanted at the time and she agrees with what the new administration is doing. what he wants now,” Richmond said.
Snopes director Chris Richmond told MSNBC that the government is to blame for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, not the critics.
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New York Post published a report about Hunter Biden's laptop in October 2020 that was effectively buried by Big Tech, including Twitter and Facebook.
Zuckerberg said he wants to create a program similar to Elon Musk's social data on X, which Richmond says is a good system in theory.
“I agree that the public information system is very good. It should be transparent. The problem is that Facebook has this black box system so they can do what they want and remove the blame, as we want A more transparent system. Be a push to public information but it means you're going to remove critics as part of the process, I think that's where the issue lies.
Zuckerberg spoke to the podcast host Joe Rogan in an event broadcast on Friday, in which the CEO shared that members of the Biden administration repeatedly demanded that they take down public information about the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Meta and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has spoken at length about the pressure he faces from the government, particularly the Biden administration, to censor information on their behalf. (The Joe Rogan Experience)
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Zuckerberg spoke further about “government hypocrisy,” much of which he said was fueled by the congressional investigation, saying, “I mean these people in the Biden administration can call our team and they like to be yelling and cursing, and it's like … these documents, it's all kinds of “.
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Zuckerberg summarized that the conflict between his company and the government “basically got to the point where we said, 'No, we're not going to, we're not going to take down things that are true. .' That's crazy.”
Fox News' Alex Hall contributed to this report