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Bokhari: How Zuckerberg Became America's (Unappointed) Editor-in-Chief Breitbart

The Facebook CEO reminded us of his burgeoning role as Americasde factoeditor-in-chief during the controversy over alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.

Numerous conservative media outlets, including Breitbart News, were prevented from posting stories naming Ciaramella as the alleged whistleblower on Facebook.

But in a world where 52 percent of Americans get their news directly from Facebook, thats becoming less and less acceptable.

Meanwhile, his company still claims in court that they shouldnt be subject to the laws that govern regular publishers, like defamation.

If a landlord wants to evict you from a parking lot, they have to go through the legal system to do so.If Facebook wants to terminate a page that your livelihood and those of your employees depend on, they dont even have to send you an email.

Republicans had a chance to fix this sorry state of affairs when they controlled both houses of Congress in the first two years of the Trump administration.

And here is the result of their dithering: Mark Zuckerberg gets to censor a key detail of a major national news story, the name of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.

Facebook spokesmen said that the company would change its policy once enough public figures and media outlets named him but Ciaramella has since been named by Sen.

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