““We don’t want to judge what is true and what is false.” ”
That was Meta Platforms Inc.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday’s Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
In a wide-ranging interview that lasted nearly three hours, the leader of the company formerly known as Facebook spoke with the popular Spotify SPOT.
We host Rogan to discuss the company’s new virtual reality headset, which launches in October, as well as the role of sites like Facebook and Instagram and arch-rival Twitter TWTR.
in content moderation.
But Zuckerberg’s comments about how Facebook handled posts that could spread misinformation sparked the most Twitter buzz on Friday ahead of the 2020 presidential election. news article.
This stems from Logan pressuring Zuckerberg in his Facebook moderation of a controversial 2020 New York Post article about the contents of a laptop allegedly owned by Hunter Biden. increase. Recap: Shortly before the November 3, 2020 election, The Washington Post published unconfirmed allegations that Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, exercised influence over Ukrainian companies. Did. The report purportedly contained emails from Hunter Biden obtained from a laptop allegedly misplaced in a repair facility in Delaware, and was subsequently provided to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. It is said that
An improbable explanation for how the email surfaced immediately raised questions about Russian involvement. Especially as US officials have warned that Russia, which backed the Trump campaign in 2016 through hacking and covert social media campaigns, is again interfering.so both Facebook When twitter It initially restricted article sharing before reversing course amid censorship allegations.
Zuckerberg told Logan that Facebook took seriously warnings from the FBI about foreign influence in the 2020 election and the polarization of content at the time.
“The FBI basically came to us… [saying]I thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We’re notifying you of what you’re trying to do, so be careful,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg also said he doesn’t remember if the FBI mentioned the Post’s laptop story in its 2020 warning, but the article “fits a pattern.” Instead of trying to determine if it was a lie or not, I used a third-party fact-checker.
Keywords (May 2020): ‘Facebook should not be the arbiter of truth,’ Zuckerberg told Fox News
See also (June 2020). Some Who Literally Helped Create Facebook’s Community Standards Say Zuckerberg Is Wrong With Trump’s Post
“I didn’t go into this to judge those things basically. I went into this to design technology that helps people connect,” he added.
But many listeners and others took the FBI’s warning to Facebook as evidence of election interference, leading to Zuckerberg’s name trending on Twitter on Friday.
NYP Holdings Inc., the parent company of the New York Post, and Dow Jones Inc., the publisher of MarketWatch, are owned by News Corp.
Zuckerberg, almost drowned out by the FBI remarks, also announced that his company’s new VR headset will be available in October. This is the same month Meta hosts his Connect VR conference. The Oculus 2 sequel will allow for better facial recognition and movement patterns, making digital avatars more sophisticated than before.
“When people are together, there is more nonverbal communication than verbal communication,” Zuckerberg told Logan. “When you’re on a video call, you don’t feel like you’re with the person. For me, what virtual reality unlocks is convincing your brain that you’re there.”
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In 2021, Facebook will rename itself Meta in order to reorient part of its business towards its Metaverse and virtual reality efforts. The name change reflects a move towards what the company calls “the next evolution of social technology.”
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