General Discussion

JonLP24

(29,322 posts) Thu May 28, 2020, 03:58 PM May 2020

Pelosi Says Zuckerberg 'Panders to White House' After Facebook CEO Sides With Trump Over Twitter

Pelosi Says Zuckerberg 'Panders to White House' After Facebook CEO Sides With Trump Over Twitter Fact-Checking

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shared her thoughts on President Donald Trump's clash with social media on Thursday, commenting on his anticipated executive order and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent response to the dispute.

Referencing Zuckerberg's new Fox News interview, in which he criticized Twitter's decision to fact-check Trump's tweets about mail-in voting, Pelosi said top social networking corporations "pander to the White House" in efforts to secure tax breaks and avoid oversight.

"They don't want to be regulated, so they pander to the White House. You see what Facebook's Zuckerberg is saying today about all of this," Pelosi told reporters during her latest news briefing, which primarily discussed the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Regarding Trump's upcoming executive order related to social media, most details of which are still unclear, she added: "What the president is doing is silly. It's silly. But let's say this: it's a distraction."

https://www.newsweek.com/pelosi-says-zuckerberg-panders-white-house-after-facebook-ceo-sides-trump-over-twitter-1507182?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1590694674

4 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Pelosi Says Zuckerberg 'Panders to White House' After Facebook CEO Sides With Trump Over Twitter (Original Post) JonLP24 May 2020 OP

Pelosi again calls it like it is still_one May 2020 #1

Thank You, Nancy.. Zucker is Cha May 2020 #2

I loved her comment about social media's business model grumpyduck May 2020 #3

Some social media platforms Igel May 2020 #4

still_one

(92,479 posts)

1. Pelosi again calls it like it is

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2020, 03:59 PM

May 2020

Cha

(297,877 posts)

2. Thank You, Nancy.. Zucker is

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2020, 04:03 PM

May 2020

shameless.

grumpyduck

(6,275 posts)

3. I loved her comment about social media's business model

Reply to JonLP24 (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2020, 04:45 PM

May 2020

being all about making money. I don't have a specific problem with that, since all businesses want to make money, but I think a lot of people needed to hear that social media isn't about the users -- it's about making money for the company and the employees.

In the case of FB, I seem to remember that they got a lot of startup money from Russian investors. So if Z is pandering to someone, it would appear that he might be pandering to the people who gave him startup money.

Igel

(35,382 posts)

4. Some social media platforms

Reply to grumpyduck (Reply #3)

Thu May 28, 2020, 05:05 PM

May 2020

have protection against lawsuits because they claim they can't regulate content; the person posting the media is responsible for the content and the media platform just lets things get posted unless there's a violation of some pre-existing rule.

This goes against the rationale for the legal protection.

Reply to this discussion