Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is brushing off criticism — again — about his social media company posting political ads that contain false information, explaining to “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King that he doesn’t think private companies “should be censoring politicians.”
In their first joint TV interview, which will air on “CBS This Morning” Monday, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan invited King to their home, where Oprah’s bestie confronted the billionaire about the brouhaha surrounding his refusal to take down political ads that, as King put it, “people know are false.”
“What I believe is that in a democracy it’s really important that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying, so they can make their own judgments,” Zuckerberg said, repeating his standpoint he first made in October during a speech at Georgetown University.