Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't believe Twitter should take away President Trump's digital megaphone. 'My belief is that in a democracy I don't think that we want private companies censoring politicians in the news,' Zuckerberg said in an interview.
"My belief is that in a democracy I don't think that we want private companies censoring politicians in the news," Zuckerberg said in an interview with Fox News' Dana Perino, set to air Friday.Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris recently called on Twitter to suspend Trump from the service. Twitter responded to Harris on Tuesday, saying it would not suspend the president.It's a position to which Zuckerberg appears sympathetic.
Mark Zuckerberg gives speech depicting Facebook as at the center of struggle for free expression"I generally believe that as a principle, people should decide what is credible, what they want to believe and who they want to vote for, and I don't think that that should be something that we want tech companies, or any kind of other company [to] do," he said during the interview.Read MoreZuckerberg also defended Facebook's policy regarding political advertisements.
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