{"id":36621,"date":"2020-07-20T03:28:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36621"},"modified":"2020-07-20T03:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T03:28:05","slug":"zuckerberg-criticizes-trump-coronavirus-response-as-facebook-struggles-to-contain-its-own-misinformation-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36621","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg criticizes Trump coronavirus response as Facebook struggles to contain its own misinformation virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zuckerberg criticizes Trump coronavirus response as Facebook struggles to contain its own misinformation virus\" src=\"https:\/\/mondrian.mashable.com\/lead-img-mark-zuckerberg-criticizes-trump-coronavirus.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No more Mr. Nice Zuck.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/videos\/10112108870243761\/?q=mark%20zuckerberg&#038;epa=SEARCH_BOX\">Facebook Live Q&#038; A with Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/a>, Mark Zuckerberg did not mince words when he blamed the Trump administration&#8217;s response to the coronavirus. That&#8217;s a difference from Facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/zuckerberg-defends-trump-facebook-post-protesters\/?utm_campaign&#038;utm_context=textlink&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source\">usually kowtowing relationship<\/a> with the president &#8212; and Facebook&#8217;s own strives to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/05\/01\/facebooks-covid-19-misinformation-campaign-is-based-on-research-the-authors-worry-facebook-missed-the-message\/\">contain and meaningfully address<\/a> the spread of COVID-1 9 misinformation on its platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg opened the Q&#038; A with a declaration stating that diverged from the Trump administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/politics\/the-fix\/54-times-trump-downplayed-the-coronavirus\/2020\/03\/05\/790f5afb-4dda-48bf-abe1-b7d152d5138c_video.html\">downplaying<\/a> of the coronavirus and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/05\/06\/trump-praises-his-coronavirus-response-239787\">praising<\/a> of the country&#8217;s response. Namely, he started by acknowledging that things are bad here. <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/mark-zuckerberg-criticizes-trump-coronavirus\/\">Read more &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/misinformation\/\">Misinformation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/coronavirus\/\">Coronavirus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/\">Tech<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mark-zuckerberg\/\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/mark-zuckerberg-criticizes-trump-coronavirus\/\">mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No more Mr. Nice Zuck. During a Facebook Live Q&#038; A with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mark Zuckerberg did not mince words when he blamed the Trump administration&#8217;s response to the coronavirus. That&#8217;s a difference from Facebook&#8217;s usually kowtowing relationship with the president &#8212; and Facebook&#8217;s own strives to contain and meaningfully address the spread of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20787,28,8478,20965,1027],"class_list":["post-36621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-misinformation","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020%252F07%252F17%252F88%252F409684569e89452e8f76f86fa04eadde.f8e22%252F1200x6301595215685.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}