Tik Tok? Not surprising, FB dominate. Related, Zuckerberg publicly asked the government to regulate social media. But privately, according to Peter Thiel, he cut a deal with Trump to not be regulated. Peter Thiel said Zuckerberg agreed with Trump to push 'state-sanctioned conservatism,' new book says - countryask In a 2019 meeting with Donald Trump and Jared Kushner, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly ‘promised [that Facebook] would avoid fact-checking political speech – thus allowing the Trump campaign to claim whatever it wanted.’ In return, Max Chafkin writes in his new book, ‘The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power,’ the administration would ‘lay off any heavy-handed regulations’ The Facebook founder denied that there had been any deal with the Trump administration, Chafkin wrote, calling the claim ‘pretty ridiculous.’ ‘I accepted the invite for dinner because I was in town and he is the president of the United States,’ Zuckerberg said in the Axios interview. ‘For what it’s worth, I also had multiple meals and meetings with President Obama… both at the White House and outside, including hosting an event for him at Facebook HQ.’ ‘The fact that I met with a head of state should not be surprising, and does not suggest we have some kind of deal.’ Likewise, a representative from Facebook’s Executive Communications department categorically denied that such an agreement was fostered, and told MailOnline.com on Monday that ‘the timeline suggested in the book excerpt conflicts with what’s already widely been reported.’ In September of 2019, Facebook Vice President of Global Affairs Sir Nick Clegg announced that the platform would not fact-check politicians’ statements posted to the site. ‘We don’t believe… that it’s an appropriate role for us to referee political debates and prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scrutiny,’ Clegg said in the 2019 statement. News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021 | Pew Research Center
