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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPelosi calls Facebook a 'shameful' company that helped in 'misleading the American people'
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/tech/pelosi-shameful-facebook/index.htmlWashington DC (CNN Business)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted Facebook as a "shameful" company on Thursday, further escalating tensions between Democratic leadership and the social media giant.
In response to a question about the power held by Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, Pelosi accused the company of being "accomplices for misleading the American people with money from god-knows where."
She also suggested that the company cares about profits above all else. "All they want are their tax cuts and no antitrust action against them," she said, adding that she believes Facebook "schmoozed" the Trump administration. The comments came at Pelosi's weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.
"I think they have proven by not taking down something they know is false that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election," she said in May.
Facebook has come under intense criticism from Democrats for its policy of not fact-checking ads run by politicians -- a policy that Democrats say will benefit Trump's 2020 election campaign.
In response to a question about the power held by Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, Pelosi accused the company of being "accomplices for misleading the American people with money from god-knows where."
She also suggested that the company cares about profits above all else. "All they want are their tax cuts and no antitrust action against them," she said, adding that she believes Facebook "schmoozed" the Trump administration. The comments came at Pelosi's weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.
"I think they have proven by not taking down something they know is false that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election," she said in May.
Facebook has come under intense criticism from Democrats for its policy of not fact-checking ads run by politicians -- a policy that Democrats say will benefit Trump's 2020 election campaign.
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CousinIT
Jan 2020
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And they will do it again...We are in a war but most of us dont seem to know.
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2020
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,158 posts)1. And they will do it again...We are in a war but most of us dont seem to know.
CousinIT
(9,279 posts)2. Dem candidates most of all.
They appear to have little idea what they're up against. Too busy attacking each other over 17-year-old comments and the Iraq war.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)3. I find it rather distressing and disturbing...
To be situated between a monopolistic, technocratic, oligarchy-in-waiting and a fundamentalist, Evangelical, Mosaic Law dispensing, hoard of Theocracy adherents.
Sitting here in the valley of democracy with a huge, drooling, ravenous beast howling at each side, ready to trample and devour us and impose an inescapable tyranny. You can hear the sound of the boot stomping, stomping, stomping in the distance. The boot that stomps on a human face forever.
How nice!