CNN President Jeff Zucker on Thursday denounced Facebook for what he called its “absolutely ludicrous” policy that exempts political advertisements from fact-checking.<\/p>\n
“[Facebook] took so much heat, rightly so, for what happened in 2016 and for the political advertising that aired on there,” Zucker said during a CNN Citizen conference. “And now they say that political advertising is just a tiny part of their business, but that they’re not going to fact-check anything and they’re going to take all political advertising whether it is true or not. I think that is absolutely ludicrous and I think that they should be called out.”<\/p>\n
Zucker went on to cite his network’s policy surrounding advertisements, saying that CNN has already turned down two ads from President Trump’s reelection campaign because they didn’t meet its standards.<\/p>\n
“We have an obligation at CNN, if a political ad comes along and it’s not true, we’re not going to take it,” he said. “We’ve turned down I think two ads from the Trump campaign. We’ve taken two. We don’t have anything against taking those ads. But we’re only going to take them when they’re truthful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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