Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t backing away from the company’s decision to accept political ads without doing a fact check of the spots, arguing that “people should decide what is credible, not tech companies”
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Warren went so far as to purchase her own ad on Facebook that included a falsehood — that Zuckerberg was backing Trump in the 2020 election. “We have found that a different strategy works: focusing on the authenticity of the speaker rather than focusing on the content itself,” he said. “People no longer have to rely on traditional gatekeepers in politics or media to make their voices heard, and that has important consequences,” he said.
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