Mike Huckabee, Fox News panel unimpressed with Zuck’s coming clean: ‘Too little, too late’ (2024)

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have said that he now regrets allowing the Biden-Harris regime to censor Facebook but it was “too little, too late” in the view of Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee.

The former Republican governor of Arkansas and his fellow “Outnumbered” panelists discussed Zuckerberg’s bombshell letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday’s edition of the popular daytime show.

“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken,” he said in the letter.

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Referring to an administration statement on Zuckerberg’s confession, co-host Emily Compagno opened the conversation with a question.

“How can Americans make responsible decisions or any autonomous decisions with any of the information presented to them when the information is wrong? Encouraged by the White House,” she asked.

“It’s really remarkable that, first of all, the government put the pressure on Facebook, you know what’s equally remarkable?” Huckabee asked. “That Facebook accepted the pressure. Why didn’t they say, ‘We’re not going to let the government tell us what to print, tell us what to say, tell us what to think. Well, that’s an abuse of the First Amendment.’

“But they didn’t, they played along,” he continued. “He can say all he wants to about, ‘Oh, I was wrong.’ That’s like burning your house down and saying, ‘I want to bring over a nice housewarming gift tomorrow for the rubble that’s left.’”

“Look, the 2020 election was definitely influenced by the misinformation, by the lies and the distortions that were told, Facebook was a big part of that,” the former governor added. “They played the game and they played it to win for Joe Biden. They cannot come back now and pretend ‘Aw, we really didn’t mean it. We’re really good guys.’ No, they’re not good guys, and let’s not pretend that they are.”

Compagno then teed up a clip of Zuckerberg’s interview with podcasting king Joe Rogan in which he gave a weasely explanation about the censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story which the FBI said was Russian disinformation, a lie that has since been debunked, and the mishandling was a part of Zuckerberg’s letter to Jordan.

“I think he protests too much because it seemed like there was a lot of words about nothing and that now, to the governor’s point, we’ve gotten that admission and the apology, too little, too late,” she said, turning the floor over to co-host Kayleigh McEnany.

“Great questions from Joe Rogan, really long, winding, twisting answers from Zuckerberg. I mean, okay, Zuckerberg, if you want to put your money where your mouth is, people are behind these algorithms that censored Reagan, that censored the Trump assassination photo that you’ve apologized for,” McEnany said.“Well, fire the people behind the algorithms.”

“The whole point too is, you know, when does accountability fit in and what does that look like?” Compagno asked. “We’ve been speaking earlier about that, that there’s a responsibility when you flip flop, there’s a responsibility when your policies, your actions, your decisions have a very negative and very real impact on Americans. so what are we supposed to do with this admission now? Because the election already passed and there’s one about to happen.”

“I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” Zuckerberg said, claiming that the next time will be different.

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