Mark Zuckerberg Touts Broad Power of Expression as ‘Fifth Estate’
- Facebook CEO defends policy of not fact-checking political ads
- At Georgetown, he touts power of expression as ‘fifth estate’
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Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the social network doesn’t fact-check political advertisements because it’s not the place of technology companies to become arbiters of truth.
“I don’t think most people want to live in a world where you can only post things that tech companies judge to be 100% true,” Zuckerberg said on Thursday to an auditorium full of students at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall in Washington. “People should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying.”