Mark Zuckerberg contacts Nancy Pelosi after Facebook refused to take down manipulated video; still

[TexasTowelie]

Mark Zuckerberg contacts Nancy Pelosi after Facebook refused to take down manipulated video; still waiting on response


Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg reached out to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in recent weeks to discuss how his company handles viral misinformation, but she has not called him back or personally replied, according to two people familiar with the exchanges.

Pelosi's decision not to engage with Zuckerberg, one of the most powerful technology executives in the world, reflects her frustration with how Facebook handled a manipulated video clip of remarks by the speaker, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The video of Pelosi's onstage speech last month at a Center for American Progress event, in which she said President Donald Trump's refusal to cooperate with congressional investigations was tantamount to a "coverup," was edited to make her voice sound garbled and warped. The video circulated on several social platforms, including Facebook, which refused to take it down.

According to the people familiar with the matter, Pelosi has not been eager to hear Zuckerberg's explanation for the company's actions.

Read more: https://www.jamestownsun.com/news/nation/4624337-mark-zuckerberg-contacts-nancy-pelosi-after-facebook-refused-take-down

[Laurian]

1. Good. He deserves to be shunned.

He values profits over decency.

[Cattledog]

2. Zuckerberg is a POS

[Hugin]

3. Yeah, he's an executive of a vaporware social media fad.

However, Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Y'know, an actual physical country with people, property, and assets.

[Maven]

12. Worse. He's the ethically-void lost boy running a social engineering platform

selling his disinformation machine to anyone who will pay, including foreign governments and homegrown tyrants.

Facebook must be heavily regulated and/or broken up.

[Hekate]

4. Good. Zuck will just mansplain the little lady on how bots & trolls & slander & lies are protected--

And how surely letting all this sewage run rampant on his moneymaking machine had nothing to do with Trump getting the White House.

[MontanaMama]

5. Zuckerburg isn't worth

the Speaker’s time. Why the hell would he “reach out” to her anyway. What a tool.

[JI7]

6. he wants to make it look like he is doing something

without actually doing anything. why does he need to reach out to her ?

[marble falls]

7. Screw Mark Zuckerberg. He's not the only human on the planet.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. I'd say "not the only robot....". nt

[marble falls]

19. There's a good article about him in tha latest Vanity Fair. He got to be a very lonely person.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. He just strikes me as such an odd individual. Especially when he seems to struggling to

"act normal".

[Wellstone ruled]

8. He best get his ducks in a row

before The Speaker Opens a Investigation into big Tech not doing their jobs monitoring criminal activities.

[still_one]

9. Zukerberg also said something to the effect that holocaust deniers aren't intentionally

trying to get it wrong

Sure thing Zukerberg

[YOHABLO]

13. WHAT?

[struggle4progress]

15. Zuckerberg: The Recode interview

By Kara Swisher
Updated Oct 8, 2018, 2:21pm EDT

... I’m Jewish, and there’s a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive. But at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong ...

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17575156/mark-zuckerberg-interview-facebook-recode-kara-swisher

[lame54]

11. Is it a coincidence that...

The same actor who played Zuckerberg in the movie
Has also played Lex Luther?

[still_one]

16. That was Gene Hackman

[Kurt V.]

17. +1 ha!

[OnDoutside]

14. How's your Presidential run going, Mark ?

[StarfishSaver]

18. Good for her. If Facebook doesn't take down the vIdeo, what's there to talk about?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Just disregarding another narcissist.

Nancy has plenty of practice........

[warmfeet]

21. Too bad for him.

Zuck, feel the power rain down on your tiny little head.

Buh bye.

[Farmer-Rick]

22. What??????

An uber rich capitalist king calls a powerful gov't official who let a fake derogatory video go wild on his platform and she doesn't grovel and kiss his ass? What is the value of capital if you can't buy off a powerful gov't official? What is the world coming to.