Zuckerberg Throws Trump Under The Bus During Congressional Testimony

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't waste any time during his appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday shifting the blame for the January 6th insurrection off of his company and onto former President Trump. While Zuckerberg is right about Trump needing to be held accountable for his words and deeds, Facebook must also face the same kind of consequences for allowing things like this to be planned on their platform. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg was once again hauled in front of Congress this time in front of the energy and commerce committee to talk about censorship, to talk about his social media networks role in the January 6th insurrection and Mark Zuckerberg was totally prepared to not take any blame for that. In fact, in his opening statement, he said that the president former president, uh, should be held responsible for his words and his actions. Here's the exact quote. He said, I believe that the former president should be responsible for his words and that the people who broke the law should be responsible for their actions. So we kind of threw Donald Trump under the bus there. Right? I wasn't us. It wasn't, it wasn't all the people planning it on our social media network. It wasn't the posts that we allowed to stay up calling for people to join this little January 6th event.

No, it wasn't our fault. It was totally Donald Trump. That guy, a man too bad. He's not here right now. If he was, I would totally like hold them accountable for that. Look, Zuckerberg is a piece of crap, but he's not entirely wrong about this either. Yes. Donald Trump absolutely deserves a lot of the blame for this. He deserves to be sued over this. Like he is, he deserved to be impeached for it. He actually deserved to be convicted for it in the Senate, but that didn't happen. But Mark Zuckerberg isn't that far off. Right? Can we, can we be honest about that? When you allow these people, these individuals who committed the atrocious acts on January 6th, when you allow them to use your network to post about it, to talk about it, to put videos of themselves storming the capital on after the event takes place.

Yeah. You're kind of culpable there. Okay. A little bit of liability spills over onto you at that point, Mark. And I know you don't want the liability. You don't want any of this. You just want the fun stuff, right? I mean, hell, you made the whole website because you wanted to rate women in your college and now look what it's become a massive liability for you and everyone else involved. And yeah, you do share some of the responsibility for what happened at the Capitol on January 6th. Change is coming. Change is coming pretty hard. Change is coming pretty fast for social media giants. Some of it's going to be good and some of it's going to be bad and I'm not talking about for the social media outlets. I'm talking about for the consumers, for you and me. Not all of the change, not all of the regulations that are going to be slapped onto these social media outlets are going to be beneficial for us.

There will be increased censorship as they overreact. Uh, we have seen that by the way, with YouTube, uh, plenty of times over the years, anytime there are certain topics or issues where you have people acting in bad faith, YouTube will come across the board and demonetize it's because that's the easiest thing to do. You know, rather than offend people with this one thing, let's just make sure we don't offend anybody. We don't want to waste the man hours.