Twitter's Jack Dorsey fires back at Zuckerberg, defends fact-checking Trump tweets

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey fired back at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who criticized the tech giant's decision to fact-check President Trump's tweets about mail-in voting.

In a preview clip of his interview with Fox News' Dana Perino, Zuckerberg weighed in on the escalating dustup between Trump and Twitter. The issue at hand was the labeling of the president's tweets sounding the alarm on potential voter fraud in the upcoming election, pointing to "fact checkers" that say there is "no evidence" that expanded, nationwide mail-in voting would increase fraud risks. Twitter's own analysis was later scrutinized by critics.

"We have a different policy than, I think, Twitter on this," Zuckerberg told "The Daily Briefing" in an interview scheduled to air in full on Thursday.

"I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online," he added. "Private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that."

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Twitter fact-checker has history bashing Trump, conservatives

The head of Twitter’s post-policing team that flagged a pair of tweets by President Trump, marking them with fact-check labels, has a questionable history of politically charged tweets of his own.

Twitter’s “Head of Site Integrity” Yoel Roth, who is in charge of the team responsible for developing and enforcing the social media site’s rules, faced heavy criticism Wednesday for previous 2017 tweets in which he referred to team Trump as “ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE” and called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a “personality-free bag of farts.”

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Trump Will Act on Big Tech Censorship, White House Says

On Wednesday night, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters that President Donald Trump will sign an executive order regarding social media and Big Tech companies, following his public battle with Twitter after the social media platform added a “fact-check” to his tweets.

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The price of Twitter’s ‘fact-check’ on President Trump

After President Trump’s fevered conspiracy tweetsabout Joe Scarborough’s former intern Lori Klausutis, her widower, T.J. Klausutis, begged the company to delete them. It was a heartbreaking plea (one that Trump himself should listen to), but CEO Jack Dorsey made the right call. The tweets were a living record of the nation’s president, and the company wasn’t going to take them down.

But then, later on Tuesday, Twitter decided on what is considered a compromise. It would flag Trump’s tweets for “misinformation,” beginning with his rants against mail-in voting.

Dorsey should have stuck to his hands-off approach.

This isn’t a free-speech issue, as Trump claimed last night. Twitter is a private company and can decide what’s published on its platform. But Dorsey understands that Twitter is documenting history here. If he bans Trump, he’s making a political statement — not providing the neutral forum for ideas that the company invented.

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It’s Time To Stop Pretending Twitter Is Neutral

If Twitter wants to editorialize and 'factcheck' President Trump’s tweets with disclaimers, then it should be treated like any other publisher.

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Zuckerberg: ‘We’ve Tried to Distinguish Ourselves as Being Really Strong in Favor of Giving People…Free Expression’

CNSNews.com) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with Dana Perino on Fox News on Thursday that Facebook is “strong in favor of giving people a voice and free expression” but does draw the line “if people are doing things like promoting violence or saying things that are going to cause imminent physical harm.”

Zuckerberg addressed the issue when Perino asked him about Twitter did a fact check on a tweet President Donald Trump had sent out on mail-in voting.

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Pelosi: ‘I Think That Mark Zuckerberg's Statement Was a Disgrace’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on MSNBC on Thursday: “I think that Mark Zuckerberg's statement was a disgrace.”

The speaker was apparently reacting to what Zuckerberg said in an interview with Dana Perino of Fox News that had been partially released on Wednesday.