Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Terrorist Propaganda Allowed Under First Amendment | CNBC — Transcript

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1. 0:00I've been on Facebook since 2007 and
2. 0:02started as a state legislator used
3. 0:05Facebook to communicate with my
4. 0:06constituents and it has been an
5. 0:08invaluable tool for me in communicating
6. 0:11we can actually do in real time multiple
7. 0:13issues as we deal with them in here in
8. 0:15Congress answer questions it's almost
9. 0:17like a Town Hall in real time I also
10. 0:20want to tell you that your staff here of
11. 0:21the governmental affairs office Chris
12. 0:23Herndon and others do a fabulous job in
13. 0:25keeping us informed
14. 0:26so I want to thank you for that before
15. 0:29this hearing when we heard about it we
16. 0:31asked our constituents and our friends
17. 0:33on Facebook what would they want me to
18. 0:35ask you and the main response was
19. 0:39addressing the perceived and in many
20. 0:41instances confirmed a bias and viewpoint
21. 0:43discrimination against Christians and
22. 0:45conservatives on your platform today
23. 0:47listening to this I think the two main
24. 0:49issues are user privacy privacy and
25. 0:51censorship the Constitution in the
26. 0:57United States and the First Amendment
27. 0:59says Congress shall make no law
28. 1:01respecting an establishment of religion
29. 1:02or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
30. 1:05normally abridge the freedom of speech
31. 1:07of the press the right of people to
32. 1:09assemble or address the Congress for
33. 1:11address of grievances so petition the
34. 1:12Congress for address of grievances I've
35. 1:14got to copy the Constitution I want to
36. 1:16give you at the end of this hearing the
37. 1:19reason I say all that this is maybe a
38. 1:21rhetorical question but why not have a
39. 1:23community standard for free speech and
40. 1:25free exercise of religion that is simply
41. 1:28a mirror of the First Amendment with
42. 1:30algorithms that are viewed that or have
43. 1:33a viewpoint that is neutral why not do
44. 1:35that well congressman I think that we
45. 1:39can all agree that certain content like
46. 1:41terrorist propaganda should have no
47. 1:43place on our network and the First
48. 1:46Amendment my understanding of it is that
49. 1:49that kind of speech is is allowed in the
50. 1:51world I just don't think that it is the
51. 1:53kind of thing that we want to allow to
52. 1:54spread on the internet so once you get
53. 1:57into that you're you're already you're
54. 1:59deciding that you you take this value of
55. 2:02that you care about safety and that we
56. 2:04don't want people to be able to spread
57. 2:06information that could cause a harm and
58. 2:10I think that our
59. 2:13general responsibility is to is to allow
60. 2:17the broadest spectrum of free expression
61. 2:19as we can and I appreciate I appreciate
62. 2:21that answer you're right about
63. 2:22propaganda and other issues there and I
64. 2:26believe the Constitution generally
65. 2:27applies to government and says that the
66. 2:29Congress shall make no law respecting
67. 2:30terms about religion and then we want to
68. 2:33bridge the freedom of speech or the
69. 2:34press but the standard has been applied
70. 2:37to private businesses whether those are
71. 2:39newspapers or other media platform and I
72. 2:42would argue that social media has now
73. 2:45become a media platform to be considered
74. 2:46in a lot of ways the same as other press
75. 2:50media so I think the First Amendment
76. 2:52probably does apply and will apply what
77. 2:56will you do let me ask you this what
78. 2:57will you do to restore the First
79. 2:59Amendment rights of Facebook users and
80. 3:00ensure that all users are treated
81. 3:02equally regardless of whether they are
82. 3:04conservative moderate liberal or whatnot
83. 3:08well congressman I think that we make a
84. 3:12number of mistakes in content review
85. 3:14today that I don't think only focus on
86. 3:19one political persuasion and I think
87. 3:22it's unfortunate that when those happen
88. 3:24people think that we're focused on them
89. 3:27and it happens in different political
90. 3:29groups and it's we have in that sense of
91. 3:31time conservatives are the ones that
92. 3:33raise the awareness that their content
93. 3:36has been pooled I don't see the same
94. 3:38awareness being raised by liberal
95. 3:40organizations or liberal candidates our
96. 3:42liberal policy statements so I think and
97. 3:45I think you've been made aware of this
98. 3:47over the last two days probably need to
99. 3:48go back and make sure that those things
100. 3:50are treated equal and I appreciate you
101. 3:53that again I appreciate the platform I
102. 3:55appreciate the work you do and we stand
103. 3:56willing and able to help you I here in
104. 3:58Congress because Facebook is an
105. 3:59invaluable part of what we do and how we
106. 4:01communicate
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