Mark Zuckerberg Blames Anti-Trump Media For Meta Censorship [Video]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed he was “ill-prepared” to face anti-Trump media pressuring him to fact-check misinformation on social media.

During a nearly three-hour-long podcast interview with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg said he received pressure over the last decade to start censoring material on Facebook based on political ideology. He cited Trump’s 2016 victory and BREXIT for the increase in political censorship.

Recently, Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be scrapping fact-checking in the U.S. on Facebook, Instagram, and other Meta platforms. The billionaire tech CEO claimed the decision would “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.”

The Meta founder seemed to lay criticism regarding the platform’s handling of misinformation on outsiders, arguing he was “ill-prepared” to deal with pressure from “folks in the media.”

ZUCKERBERG: It was really in the last 10 years that people started pushing for like ideological based censorship. And I think it was two main events that really triggered this in 2016 there was the …