Zuckerberg did admit that he regretted Facebook’s handling of the story, during an appearance on a TV show, but nevertheless defended the process that led to the limitation of the report and called it “quite reasonable.”
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“When something like this turns out to be true, is there any regret that you didn’t split the story evenly and failed him?” asked the moderator. “True, it sucks,” Zuckerberg replied and added: “It turned out after the fact, because the fact checkers checked it and none of them were able to say it was a lie.”
More than 50 former FBI officials signed a letter claiming the story “has all the classic hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.” According to him, the platform chose to limit the sharing of the story, but not stop it completely, after the FBI told Meta employees to beware of Russian propaganda in the run-up to the election.”