At a recent event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said that he no longer needs to say sorry for his censorship.
“When it’s a political problem… there are people operating in good faith who are seeing a problem and want something to be fixed and there are people who are just looking for someone to blame,” the founder of Facebook said.
TechCrunch says that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, spoke with the hosts of the Acquired podcast in front of a packed Chase Center in San Francisco. A new haircut, a gold chain, and a custom-designed t-shirt that said “learning through pain” in Greek gave Zuckerberg a new look. He joked that he might need to plan his next appearance to say sorry for what he was about to say. But he quickly made it clear that he was joking and that he no longer needs to apologize.
The founder of Facebook made a list of his biggest mistakes over the course of his career. He has spent a lot of time apologizing for Facebook’s problems with content filtering and its targeting of conservatives. He said his biggest mistake was a “20-year political misunderstanding,” which meant he thought he was too responsible for problems that weren’t Facebook’s fault.
Zuckberg said, “I don’t think we were doing or responsible for some of the things they said we were doing or responsible for. When there’s a political issue, there are honest people who see a problem and want it fixed, and there are also people who only want to assign blame.”
Zuckerberg says that he has found the right mix when it comes to politics. He wrote a letter to House Republicans in August saying he was sorry for hiding COVID-19 information in 2020 because the Biden administration asked him to. He felt bad that he didn’t speak out more against the government’s pressure at the time, and he promised to “push back” if the same thing happened again.
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