‘He is part of this problem’: AOC says Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are ‘partially responsible’ for the Capitol riot and says that Congress should hold tech titans accountable because ‘they allowed it’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) assigned partial blame to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for last week’s riot on the Capitol, highlighting qualms she raised last year when challenging the social media’s attack on disinformation. Speaking during a Friday town hall meeting, Ocasio-Cortez said that Facebook was ‘trying to do as much damage control as possible.’ ‘But they knew,’ she asserted. ‘Not only did they know but they allowed it.’  Speaking during a Friday town hall meeting, AOC said that Facebook was ‘trying to do as much damage control as possible’ AOC brought up the Congressional hearing where Zuckerberg and other big tech giants testified about how they were tackling disinformation leading up to the 2020 Presidential election.  ‘We knew this was a problem,’ she said. ‘We knew this so far out that pre-COVID, I asked him specifically about election disinformation and its ties on Facebook to White supremacist organizations, and the ties that ‘fact-checking organizations’ had to other White supremacist outlets … and he wouldn’t answer. So, there’s a very clear link here.’  She declared of Mark: ’He is part of this problem. And Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook bear partial responsibility for Wednesday’s events, period.’  RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Who can… Read full this story

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