PELOSI CLAPS BACK

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about his platform’s decision not to fact-check lawmakers as Twitter plans to do, calling the remarks a “disgrace.”

“As far as the platforms are concerned, they want two things from the federal government: no regulation and no taxes. And so they cater to the Trump administration all the time. I think that Mark Zuckerberg’s statement was a disgrace,” Pelosi said Thursday on MSNBC.

Zuckerberg had told Fox News on Wednesday that he believes private companies “shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth” when asked about Twitter’s decision this week to fact check and place warnings on two of President Trump’s tweets.

Pelosi praised Twitter for placing warnings on the president’s tweets about mail-in voting in California, but suggested they did not go far enough to address the root of the problem of misinformation.

“They’re not taking off any accusations the president’s making about Joe Scarborough. They know that’s not true. So they do a token thing and think it’s OK,” Pelosi said, referring to Trump’s recent tweets touting an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about the death of an aide to the former congressman and current MSNBC host.