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Ocasio-Cortez grills Zuckerberg over political ad policy
The Hill ^ | 10/23/19 | Chris Mills Rodrigo

Posted on 10/23/2019 3:49:22 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his company's new political ad policy during a House Financial Services Committee hearing Wednesday.

The freshman New York lawmaker asked Zuckerberg a series of hypotheticals about what types of political ads candidates could run without Facebook taking them down.

"Could I pay to target predominantly black zip codes and advertise them the incorrect election date?" Ocasio-Cortez asked.

"No, you couldn't," Zuckerberg responded, emphasizing the platform's policy of intervening in political ads when they incite violence or could lead to voter suppression.

"Could I run ads targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?" Ocasio-Cortez then asked.

"Congresswoman, I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head," Zuckerberg said. "I think probably."

"Do you see a problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?" Ocasio-Cortez countered.

"Congresswoman, I think lying is bad," Zuckerberg responded.

"So you will take down lies, or you won't take down lies? I think this is a pretty simple yes or no," she asked again.

"It depends on the context that it shows up," the tech executive responded.

SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; facebook; notnews; zuckerberg
Zuckerberg essentially said Facebook was not responsible for fact checking every political ad.
1 posted on 10/23/2019 3:49:22 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

What a shame that this low level waitress bartender who steals from the tip jar, has an IQ of a golf ball and at best would be cleaning his toilets is grilling a billionaire entrepreneur


2 posted on 10/23/2019 3:53:06 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: ronnie raygun

By the way, how did little Marky come into control of the code forming the foundation for FakeBook?


3 posted on 10/23/2019 3:56:33 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: ronnie raygun

And she is now the de facto leader of the Democrap party, Nutzi Pelosis boss. When Nutzi decided to impeach Trump, that’s when the transfer of power went to AOC who although she has a double digit IQ, has proven herself leagues smarter than Pelosi. Trump should harp on that.


4 posted on 10/23/2019 3:57:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: yesthatjallen

There isn’t a sentient being in the multiverse who couldn’t top Occasional Cortex in a one on one grilling.

Of course, since the Zuck-thing is a slimeball wrapped in feces covered with Obamastuff, perhaps he didn’t want to trigger a person who is a member of a group even more slimy, untrustworthy and dishonest than he.


5 posted on 10/23/2019 4:00:53 PM PDT by Da Coyote (is)
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To: yesthatjallen

If it was me sitting there, I would have said: “We don’t fact-check anything. Based on what you have said yourself on national television, ma’am ... being morally right is more important than being factually correct anyway.”


6 posted on 10/23/2019 4:01:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: ronnie raygun

Seriously. I don’t like Zuckerberg, but who is she?
She and Thunberg are similar.
Loud mouth chicks that are borderline retards.


7 posted on 10/23/2019 4:03:07 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ptsal

He stole it.


8 posted on 10/23/2019 4:03:33 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: yesthatjallen

Just what exactly is a ‘’black zip code’’? Honest to God every time this chick opens her mouth she say’s something dumber than the last dumb thing she said.


9 posted on 10/23/2019 4:12:11 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: yesthatjallen
Zuckerberg essentially said Facebook was not responsible for fact checking every political ad.

Of course not. That would make them God. Any agency that would be responsible for fact checking would be a superpower that would effectively rule.

10 posted on 10/23/2019 4:21:44 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: jmacusa

Above 100th St in NYC...


11 posted on 10/23/2019 4:22:32 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Nope. The clowns set him up based on social media engineering that was passed along to the Zuck.


12 posted on 10/23/2019 4:24:26 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: marktwain

Especially since Democrats believe truth doesn’t matter.
I would have gone through a whole litany of hoax Hate Crimes with her


13 posted on 10/23/2019 4:44:42 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: EEGator

She’s on the Arkansas-style Shit List.


14 posted on 10/23/2019 4:53:33 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: yesthatjallen

Then why does he allow posts to be fact-checked?


15 posted on 10/23/2019 4:55:35 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Cortez’s script was prolly written by her handlers Justice Democrats.


16 posted on 10/23/2019 5:12:32 PM PDT by upchuck (Democraps say the President is out of control. They mean the President of out of THEIR control.)
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17 posted on 10/23/2019 6:19:37 PM PDT by upchuck (Democraps say the President is out of control. They mean the President of out of THEIR control.)
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To: yesthatjallen
The FCC does not hold television and radio accountable for untrue political ads and no politician has been sued for reneging on campaign promises.
18 posted on 10/23/2019 7:23:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: yesthatjallen

>>”Could I run ads targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?” Ocasio-Cortez then asked.

Same sh1t different day, Stalinists lie. Always


19 posted on 10/23/2019 7:24:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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