Mark Zuckerberg

And issues would come up, practical issues, right? So if someone's getting bullied, for example, we deal with that, or we put in place systems to fight bullying.

And issues would come up, practical issues, right? So if someone's getting bullied, for example, we deal with that, or we put in place systems to fight bullying.

And issues would come up, practical issues, right? So if someone's getting bullied, for example, we deal with that, or we put in place systems to fight bullying.

You know, if someone is saying, hey, you know, someone's pirating copyrighted content on the service, it's like, OK, we'll build controls to make it so we'll find IP protected content. But it was really in the last 10 years that people started pushing for ideological-based censorship. And I think it was two main events that really triggered this.

You know, if someone is saying, hey, you know, someone's pirating copyrighted content on the service, it's like, OK, we'll build controls to make it so we'll find IP protected content. But it was really in the last 10 years that people started pushing for ideological-based censorship. And I think it was two main events that really triggered this.

You know, if someone is saying, hey, you know, someone's pirating copyrighted content on the service, it's like, OK, we'll build controls to make it so we'll find IP protected content. But it was really in the last 10 years that people started pushing for ideological-based censorship. And I think it was two main events that really triggered this.

In 2016, there was the election of President Trump, also coincided with basically Brexit in the EU and sort of the fragmentation of the EU. And then, you know, in 2020, there was COVID. And I think that those were basically these two events where for the first time, we just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds.

In 2016, there was the election of President Trump, also coincided with basically Brexit in the EU and sort of the fragmentation of the EU. And then, you know, in 2020, there was COVID. And I think that those were basically these two events where for the first time, we just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds.

In 2016, there was the election of President Trump, also coincided with basically Brexit in the EU and sort of the fragmentation of the EU. And then, you know, in 2020, there was COVID. And I think that those were basically these two events where for the first time, we just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to basically start censoring content on ideological grounds.

Yeah, and this is the thing. At the time, I was really sort of ill-prepared to kind of parse what was going on. I think part of my reflection looking back on this is I kind of think in 2016 and the aftermath, I gave too much deference to a lot of folks in the media who were basically saying, OK, there's no way that this guy could have gotten elected except for misinformation.

Yeah, and this is the thing. At the time, I was really sort of ill-prepared to kind of parse what was going on. I think part of my reflection looking back on this is I kind of think in 2016 and the aftermath, I gave too much deference to a lot of folks in the media who were basically saying, OK, there's no way that this guy could have gotten elected except for misinformation.

Yeah, and this is the thing. At the time, I was really sort of ill-prepared to kind of parse what was going on. I think part of my reflection looking back on this is I kind of think in 2016 and the aftermath, I gave too much deference to a lot of folks in the media who were basically saying, OK, there's no way that this guy could have gotten elected except for misinformation.

People can't actually believe this stuff. Right. It has to be that there's this kind of like massive. Misinformation out there. Some of it started with the the Russia collusion stuff, but it kind of morphed into different things over time.

People can't actually believe this stuff. Right. It has to be that there's this kind of like massive. Misinformation out there. Some of it started with the the Russia collusion stuff, but it kind of morphed into different things over time.

People can't actually believe this stuff. Right. It has to be that there's this kind of like massive. Misinformation out there. Some of it started with the the Russia collusion stuff, but it kind of morphed into different things over time.

Yeah, so I took this and just kind of assumed that everyone was acting in good faith. And I said, okay, well, there are concerns about misinformation. We should – just like when people raised other concerns in the past and we try to deal with them – Okay, yeah, people, you know, if you ask people, no one says that they want misinformation.

Yeah, so I took this and just kind of assumed that everyone was acting in good faith. And I said, okay, well, there are concerns about misinformation. We should – just like when people raised other concerns in the past and we try to deal with them – Okay, yeah, people, you know, if you ask people, no one says that they want misinformation.

Yeah, so I took this and just kind of assumed that everyone was acting in good faith. And I said, okay, well, there are concerns about misinformation. We should – just like when people raised other concerns in the past and we try to deal with them – Okay, yeah, people, you know, if you ask people, no one says that they want misinformation.

So maybe there's something that we should do to basically try to address this. But I was really worried from the beginning about basically becoming this sort of decider of what is true in the world. That's kind of a crazy position to be in for billions of people using your service. And so we tried to put in place a system that would deal with it.

So maybe there's something that we should do to basically try to address this. But I was really worried from the beginning about basically becoming this sort of decider of what is true in the world. That's kind of a crazy position to be in for billions of people using your service. And so we tried to put in place a system that would deal with it.