In testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, bragged about how effective they had been this year in censoring “misleading” posts and “conspiracy theories,” while “amplifying credible information” about voting, National Public Radio reported today. So, censorship is a good thing. And, they boasted, they are so responsible that they have continued this activity in the days after the election, too, as votes were still being counted and President Donald Trump and his supporters questioned them. Dorsey bragged that Twitter had flagged 300,000 tweets between Oct. 27 and Nov. 11, for “disputed and potentially misleading” information about the election.
“All taken together, I think that we really went quite far in terms of helping to distribute reliable and accurate information about what was going on during this election,” Zuckerberg boasted. While Dorsey confessed that it was a mistake for Twitter to block users from sharing the New York Post's article about Hunter Biden, he insisted that his backtracking on the initial censorship—not entirely true—shows how open he is to criticism and willing to change—transparently!!
