Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Says Trump Didn't Lobby Him During Private Dinner

In a recent interview with CBS, Facebooks CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that President Trump did not lobby him during a private dinner in October.

3 that both he and Trump, along with Facebook investor Peter Thiel, talked about a number of things that were on mind.

No better example of Facebooks power than Zuckerberg being asked here whether Trump lobbied him, rather than whether he lobbied Trump, Shubber wrote on Twitter.

News of the private dinner, which was unreported by the White House and Facebook but reported by NBC, received criticism from Sen.

Facebook came under fire in October after it declined former Vice President Joe Bidens request to remove an advertisement by President Trumps 2020 campaign.

Our approach is grounded in Facebooks fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is, Facebooks head of global elections policy, Katie Harbath, wrote in the letter to the Biden campaign, according to The New York Times.

Zuckerbergs comments are consistent with his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee that occurred in October.

During the 6-hour-long hearing, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Zuckerberg if she could buy Facebook ads with lies about her political opponents.

Nadine Strossen, law professor and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, told The Epoch Times in an earlier interview that any policy that restricts such inherently vague, subjectively defined categories of speech as political or harmful inevitably has an adverse impact on free speech.

Antitrust investigations against Facebook, including tech giants Google, Amazon, and Apple have been instigated by the U.S.

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