在脸书创始人兼首席执行官马克·扎克伯格批评推特本周首次对唐纳德·特朗普总统的推特进行事实核查的决定后，众议员亚历山大·奥乔科泰兹将矛头对准了马克·扎克伯格。
“扎克伯格不担心被特朗普欺负，”来自纽约的进步民主党人奥西奥-科尔特斯周四在推特上说。
“他担心脸谱网的公关业务正在崩溃，因为它暴露出他们的平台依赖白人至上主义者和虚假信息兜售者来获得成功，”她写道，“他们没有忽视他们。他们在保护他们。”
新闻周刊联系了脸谱网寻求评论，但是在发表时他们还没有回复。
奥西奥-科尔特斯后来转发了10月份众议院金融服务委员会监督听证会的一段视频，在这段视频中，她直接询问了扎克伯格关于脸谱网有关白人至上主义内容和事实核查的政策。
她在推特上写道:“脸书与白人至上组织的联系以及对虚假信息运动的同情不是一件小事。”。"这是一个高层次的决策，似乎来自高层."
扎克伯格周三批评竞争对手社交媒体平台推特对特朗普发送的两条推特进行了事实核查，这两条推特分享了关于邮寄投票和选民欺诈的虚假信息。总统已经反复地他说，没有证据表明，扩大邮寄投票将导致广泛的选民欺诈，民主党人将使用缺席投票来“操纵”选举。
扎克伯格在接受福克斯新闻采访时表示:“我认为，在这一点上，我们的政策与推特不同。”。
“我只是坚信，脸书不应该成为人们在网上所说的一切真相的仲裁者。总的来说，私人公司可能不应该这样做，尤其是这些平台公司，不应该这样做。
奥西奥-科尔特斯周四的评论是对前总统奥巴马政府发言人汤米·维特的一条推文的回应拯救美国和拯救世界。维特在推特上发布了扎克伯格的评论，称脸书意识到其算法会导致两极分化。
“脸书自己的研究显示，该平台正在分化国家，将人们推入极端主义团体，但扎克伯格更担心被特朗普称为卑鄙的名字，”维特写道。
这位前奥巴马政府官员似乎指的是周二的文章从《华尔街日报》该报告显示，一份Facebook内部报告显示，该公司高管在2018年意识到，其平台加剧了分歧和两极分化。“我们的算法利用了人脑对分裂的吸引力，”据报道，一张来自脸书内部演示的幻灯片说道。
2019年10月23日，众议员亚历山大·奥西奥·科尔特斯(纽约)在华盛顿特区众议院金融服务委员会前聆听脸书首席执行官马克·扎克伯格的证词
随着脸书和扎克伯格面临批评，特朗普在推特上添加了事实核查后，对社交媒体做出了愤怒的反应。他说，社交媒体平台压制保守派，并威胁要关闭这些平台。
“在2020年选举之前，大科技公司正在尽最大努力审查。如果发生这种情况，我们就不再有自由了。我绝不会让它发生！他们在2016年努力尝试，但失败了。现在他们完全疯了。保持关注！！！”总统在周三晚间发了推特。
特朗普计划周四签署一项针对社交媒体平台的行政命令。订单的草稿美国有线电视新闻网报道显示总统的指示将重新解释1996年的法律，该法律有助于保护网站和科技公司免受诉讼。
“在一个长期珍视言论自由的国家，我们不能允许数量有限的网络平台手工挑选美国人可以在网上访问和传达的言论，”该草案命令说。
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Mark Zuckerberg Is 'Protecting' White Supremacists on Facebook
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at Mark Zuckerberg after the Facebook founder and CEO critiqued Twitter's decision to put a fact-check on President Donald Trump's tweet for the first time this week.
"Zuckerberg is not worried about being bullied by Trump," Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat from New York, tweeted on Thursday.
"He is worried that Facebook's PR operation is falling apart as it's exposed that their platform relies on white supremacists & disinformation peddlers to be successful," she wrote "They aren't ignoring them. They're protecting them."
Newsweek reached out to Facebook for comment, but they had not responded by the time of publication.
Ocasio-Cortez later re-tweeted a video from an October House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing, during which she interrogated Zuckerberg directly about Facebook's policies regarding white supremacist content and fact-checking.
"Facebook's ties to white supremacy-linked orgs and sympathy for disinformation campaigns is not a small thing," she tweeted. "It is high level decision making, and appears to come from the top."
Zuckerberg on Wednesday criticized rival social media platform Twitter for placing a fact-check on two tweets sent by Trump that shared false information about mail-in voting and voter fraud. The president has repeatedly said, without evidence, that expanding mail-in voting will lead to widespread voter fraud and that Democrats will use absentee ballots to "rig" the election.
"We have a different policy, I think, than Twitter on this," Zuckerberg told Fox News in an interview.
"I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online. In general, private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that," the Facebook CEO said.
Ocasio-Cortez's Thursday remarks were in response to a tweet by Tommy Vietor, a former spokesperson from the administration of President Barack Obama who now co-hosts Pod Save America and Pod Save the World. Vietor had tweeted about Zuckererg's remarks, saying that Facebook is aware that its algorithms lead to polarization.
"Facebook's own research shows the platform is polarizing the country and driving people into extremists groups, but Zuckerberg is more worried about being called mean names by Trump," Vietor wrote.
The former Obama administration official appeared to be referring to a Tuesday articlefrom The Wall Street Journal, which showed that an internal Facebook report demonstrated that the company's executives were aware in 2018 that its platform stoked divisiveness and polarization. "Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness," a slide from an internal Facebook presentation reportedly said.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) listens as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, D.C. on October 23, 2019
As Facebook and Zuckerberg have faced criticism, Trump has reacted in anger toward social media in general following the fact-check being added to his tweet. He has said that social media platforms suppress conservatives and threatened to shut down the platforms.
"Big Tech is doing everything in their very considerable power to CENSOR in advance of the 2020 Election. If that happens, we no longer have our freedom. I will never let it happen! They tried hard in 2016, and lost. Now they are going absolutely CRAZY. Stay Tuned!!!" the president tweeted late on Wednesday.
Trump plans to sign an executive order targeting social media platforms on Thursday. A draft of the order reported by CNN shows that the president's directive will reinterpret a 1996 law, which has helped to shield websites and tech companies from lawsuits.
"In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand-pick the speech that Americans may access and convey online," the draft order says.
