in World News Mark Zuckerberg: Conservatives Only Have Themselves to Blame for Being Censored on Facebook
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that conservatives are “just looking for someone to blame” for being censored on his company’s Facebook and Instagram platforms.
Zuckerberg made the claims during a live interview for the Acquired podcast in front of a packed audience at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
According to the Big Tech boss, conservatives only have themselves to blame if they are being censored on Facebook.
The Facebook founder continued by declaring that he is done apologizing for conservatives being silenced by his company.
In an attempt to blame conservatives themselves for the rampant censorship on his platforms, Zuckerberg claimed:
“When it’s a political problem… there are people operating in good faith who are identifying a problem and want something to be fixed, and there are people who are just looking for someone to blame.”
TechCrunch reports that Zuckerberg took the stage sporting a new look with long curly hair, a gold chain, and a custom-designed t-shirt reading “learning through suffering” in Greek.
Zuckerberg joked that he might need to schedule his next appearance to apologize for whatever he was about to say.
However, he quickly clarified that he was kidding.
He then added that, in fact, his days of apologizing for censorship are behind him.
The billionaire Meta founder has spent considerable time apologizing for the platform’s content moderation issues and censorship of conservatives.
As he reflected on the biggest mistakes of his career, Zuckerberg cited a “20-year political miscalculation” as his largest error.
He suggested that he had taken too much responsibility for problems allegedly beyond Facebook’s control.