Mark Zuckerberg’s apology for complying with the government’s request that he censor disfavored views on Facebook fell on the deaf ears of Outnumbered‘s Tuesday panel.
On Monday, Zuckerberg penned a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) in which he admitted that in 2021, “senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content” and said he believes “the government pressure was wrong.”
“I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he continued.
Zuckerberg also said that the FBI warned his company about “a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma” in 2020, which led to its erroneous demotion of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“In retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” he added.
On Outnumbered, Mike Huckabee was having none of it.
“It’s really remarkable that, first of all, the government put the pressure on Facebook. You know what’s equally remarkable? That Facebook accepted the pressure! Why didn’t they say, ‘We’re not going to let the government tell us what to print, tell us what to say, tell us what to think. Well, that’s an abuse of the First Amendment.’ But they didn’t. They played along,” began Huckabee. “He can say all he wants to about, ‘Oh, I was wrong.’ That’s like burning your house down and saying, ‘I want to bring over a nice housewarming gift tomorrow for the rubble that’s left.’ Look, the 2020 election was definitely influenced by the misinformation, by the lies and the distortions that were told. Facebook was a big part of that. They played the game and they played it to win for Joe Biden. They cannot come back now and pretend ‘Aw, we really didn’t mean it. We’re really good guys.’ No, they’re not good guys, and let’s not pretend that they are.”
After playing a clip of Zuckerberg addressing the Hunter Biden issue on The Joe Rogan Experience back in 2022, Emily Compagno gave Kayleigh McEnany took a turn at bat.
“So, Kayleigh, reading in between the gobbledygook of that weird hot dog, I think, as you and I like to quote Shakespeare, that, yes, he, I think he protests too much because it seemed like there was a lot of words about nothing and that now, to the governor’s point, we’ve gotten that admission and the apology. Too little, too late,” she said.
“Great questions from Joe Rogan, really long, winding, twisting answers from Zuckerberg. I mean, okay, Zuckerberg, if you want to put your money where your mouth is, people are behind these algorithms that censored Reagan, that censored the Trump assassination photo that you’ve apologized for. Well, fire the people behind the algorithms,” suggested McEnany.
“The whole point too is, you know, when does accountability fit in and what does that look like?” replied Compagno. “We’ve been speaking earlier about that. that there’s a responsibility when you flip flop, there’s a responsibility when your policies, your actions, your decisions have a very negative and very real impact on Americans. So what are we supposed to do with this admission now? Because the election already passed and there’s one about to happen.”
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