San Francisco: Criticising Twitter for flagging tweets by US President Donald Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that social media companies should not be the arbiter of truth.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Twitter with 'big action' for tagging two of his tweets on mail-in voting with a fact-checking warning label.
In an interview with Fox News, Zuckerberg called out his social media rival, saying Twitter should not be fact-checking Trump.
"I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online," he told the interviewer.
"We have a different policy than Twitter on this. Private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that," he added.
Zuckerberg also said Trump should not retaliate against social media companies.
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"In general, I think a government choosing to censor a platform because they're worried about censorship doesn't exactly strike me as the right reflex," said the Facebook CEO.
After Twitter flagged his tweets for a fact check, Trump threatened to strongly regulate or close down social media companies that attempt to silence conservative voices.
Meanwhile, The Verge reported that The White House set its sights on a single Twitter employee after the company attached a fact-checking link to the President's tweets containing lies and misinformation related to voter fraud.