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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with President-elect Donald Trump the night before Thanksgiving in a reported attempt to earn an “active role” in the next administration.
Zuckerberg is hoping to play “an active role in the debates that any administration needs to have about maintaining America’s leadership in the technological sphere,” META President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg told reporters on Monday, according to the Financial Times.
This leadership “is tremendously important given all the geostrategic uncertainties around the world, and particularly the pivotal role that AI will play,” he added.
But critics aren’t happy with Trump and Zuckerberg meeting up. Many still resent the META boss for censoring content during the COVID pandemic, for banning Trump from Facebook for two years, and for putting money into the 2020 presidential election.
Look:
The only time Zuckerberg should be talking to Trump is to spill the beans on the censorship demands from the State and NGOs to avoid jail time.
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) December 4, 2024
Imagine targeting President Trump, deplatforming him, THEN expecting a role in Trump’s Administration.
Mark Zuckerberg is a POS snake.
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) December 3, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg, who openly dumped millions into the 2020 election to beat Trump… now apparently wants to have an “active role” in Trump’s tech policies.
I really want Trump to publicly tell him to shove it.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) December 3, 2024
Didn’t Mark Zuckerberg censor the assassination attempt pictures of President Trump…?
Didn’t he censor Covid treatments…?
Dude should be jailed.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 28, 2024
Crazy how Zuckerberg had dinner at Mar a Lago tonight.
Guess we are just supposed to forget about how he deplatformed a sitting US President and then silenced all of Trump’s supporters.
Zuckerberg even censored the pic of Trump surviving the assassination attempt.
Shocking. pic.twitter.com/PgCyFOdIaV
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 28, 2024
In fairness, Clegg did admit on Monday that Meta/Facebook “overdid it a bit” when it comes to moderating/censoring content.
Speaking with reporters, Clegg said Meta’s moderation “error rates are still too high” and vowed to “improve the precision and accuracy with which we act on our rules,” as reported by The Verge.
“We know that when enforcing our policies, our error rates are still too high, which gets in the way of the free expression that we set out to enable,” he continued. “Too often, harmless content gets taken down, or restricted, and too many people get penalized unfairly.”
Clegg went on to further admit that Meta had clearly overly aggressively removed/censored posts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We had very stringent rules removing very large volumes of content through the pandemic,” he said. “No one during the pandemic knew how the pandemic was going to unfold, so this really is wisdom in hindsight. ”
“But with that hindsight, we feel that we overdid it a bit. We’re acutely aware because users quite rightly raised their voice and complained that we sometimes over-enforce and we make mistakes and we remove or restrict innocuous or innocent content,” he added.
Clegg concluded by revealing that Zuckerberg wants “an area of ongoing focus” to be on working “to improve the precision and accuracy with which we act on our rules.”
“We’re acutely aware — because users quite rightly raised their voice and complained about this — that we sometimes over-enforce, we make mistakes and we remove or restrict innocuous or innocent content,” he said.
All this comes months after Zuckerberg, much to his credit, penned a stunning letter to House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan revealing that the Biden-Harris administration had pressured him to censor content on their behalf.
Zuckerberg throws Biden-Harris admin under bus, admits Facebook ‘pressured’ to censor Americans https://t.co/k4ScYy9ihg
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) August 27, 2024
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” he wrote.
“Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken,” he added.
He concluded the letter by, his credit again, vowing to never again be cudgeled by the government into censoring content.
“I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” he wrote.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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