How Facebook Gets the First Amendment Backward
How Facebook Gets the First Amendment Backward
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 18, 20198m 13s
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Show Notes
What does the First Amendment have to do with Facebook? It depends on whom you ask. Mark Zuckerberg would probably say: a lot. Over the past few weeks, he has repeatedly invoked the First Amendment to justify Facebook’s controversial decision to exempt posts and paid advertisements by political candidates from its fact-checking system. In a speech to Georgetown students last month, he claimed that the company’s policies are “inspired by the First Amendment.
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