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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Free Speech Amid Political Blowback: ‘I Believe In People’

Molly Prince
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Free Speech Amid Political Blowback: ‘I Believe In People’
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave a defiant speech on Thursday in which he highlighted the importance of free speech in response to critics’ demands for heightened content auditing amid the 2020 presidential election cycle.

“I’ve focused on building services to do two things: give people voice and bring people together,” Zuckerberg said while addressing a crowd at Georgetown University. “These two simple ideas — voice and inclusion — go hand in hand.”

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