U.S. Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner shortly facebooks Facebook for Twitter while asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a high-level congressional hearing wednesday.
Sensenbrenner, a prominent member of the committee that organizes the audience as a component of his ongoing research into the market dominance of primary-generation companies, asked Zuckerberg about an incident that happened on Twitter this week. (No Twitter appeal was provided in the audience).
“Donald Trump Jr. has been reported to have been arrested for some time because he had put something into the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine,” Sensenbrenner said. “I would not take (hydroxychloroquine) myself, however, there is a debate about its effectiveness in treating or preventing COVID-19. Array. Why did this happen (suppression)?”
Zuckerberg temporarily clarified what had happened: “Member of Congress, well, to be clear, I think what might be referred to happened on Twitter, so it’s hard for me to communicate.”
Earlier this week, Twitter temporarily limited Trump Jr.’s account after tweeting from doctors selling hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that has been tested to see if it can help fight the coronavirus. Facebook has disposed of the same video from its platform.
But Zuckerberg said it might be what Facebook would do in a similar case: “We ban content that will result in an imminent threat of harm, and we claim that there is a proven threat of COVID, when there isn’t, it can simply inspire someone to take anything that might have side effects,” such as taking hydroxychloroquine when it shouldn’t.
But it wouldn’t restrict discussions around drug trials “or other people who say they think things might work, or non-public experiments with experimental drugs,” Zuckerberg said.
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