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Mark Zuckerberg Denies ‘Secret’ Deal to Bar Fact-Checking Trump on Facebook to Avoid Government Regulations

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provided the detail from the forthcoming book, which is out Tuesday, and noted that while Zuckerberg refuted the story, “Facebook’s actions in the run-up to the election would make the denial seem not entirely credible.” During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, for instance, Twitter hid a post from Trump that said, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Facebook, on the other hand, left it up — and faced significant criticism for doing so, which Zuckerberg defended the company against.Facebook communications chief Andy Stone said in a tweet on Monday that Facebook’s “policy was announced before this dinner ever took place.”Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, announced the company wouldn’t fact-check.

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