Snopes CEO Chris Richmond said on Saturday that the US government was responsible for censoring the site Hunter Biden Laptop Story in 2020, and alleged that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was complying with the administration at the time.
“Let's look at the most famous example of censored content on Facebook, and that was the Hunter Biden laptop story. And we say, well, it was the fact-checkers, right, who told Zuckerberg to limit the reach of that? No, it was,” Richmond told Ali Velshi of MSNBC on Saturday: “The government has complied, so the fact-checkers are to blame.”
Zuckerberg announced On Tuesday, the company announced that it will end its fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram.
“If Kamala Harris had won, would he have taken any of these same actions now? No. He complied with what the government wanted then and he complies with what the new administration wants now,” Richmond said.
Snopes CEO Chris Richmond told MSNBC that the government is responsible for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, not fact-checkers.
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Published by the New York Post A report on Hunter Biden's laptop in October 2020 was virtually buried by major tech companies, including Twitter and Facebook.
Zuckerberg said he wants to create a program similar to Elon Musk's community feedback on X, which Richmond said is a good system in theory.
“I agree that the community feedback system is great. It should be transparent. The problem is that Facebook has a black box system where they can do whatever they want and pass the blame, as if we want a more transparent system. We should put pressure on community feedback, but “Saying that you're going to remove fact-checkers as part of the process, I think that's the problem.”
Zuckerberg spoke to the podcast Host Joe Rogan in an episode published on Friday, in which the CEO shared that members of the Biden administration have regularly called for the removal of social media posts about COVID-19 vaccine side effects.
Meta and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke at length about the pressure he faced from the government, especially the Biden administration, to censor content on their behalf. (Joe Rogan Experience)
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Zuckerberg spoke more about “government censorship,” much of which he says the congressional investigation has covered, saying, “I mean basically these people from the Biden administration are going to call up our team and yell at them and cuss them out, and it's as if these documents are out there.”
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Zuckerberg summarized that the conflict between his company and the government “basically got to this point where we were saying: No, we're not going to do this, we're not going to remove the real stuff.” “This is ridiculous.”
Fox News' Alex Hall contributed to this report
