Fake News About Mark Zuckerberg Goes Viral After Anti-Fact Checking Comments
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8xpj/fake-news-about-mark-zuckerberg-goes-viral-after-anti-fact-checking-comments
Fake news about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being shared widely on the internet, including on his own social network, after he publicly came out against fact-checking by social media companies.
This week, Twitter began fact-checking and restricting Donald Trump's tweets that spread misinformation and threatened state violence. This mild action resulted in a complete meltdown from the president and an incoherent executive order on Thursday that seeks to interpret a bedrock internet law completely differently than it is written. With little clear legal basis, the goal appears to be intimidation and spectacle amid a pandemic, massive unemployment, police murders, and civil unrest. Still, if it were to happen, the internet would be much worse off.