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Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg’s an ‘authoritarian’ for refusing to referee political speech on Facebook

By Becket Adams
Published January 29, 2020 2:30pm ET
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Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg’s an ‘authoritarian’ for refusing to referee political speech on Facebook
FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at Georgetown Law's second annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture, in Washington. Clinton told the BBC on Tuesday Nov. 12, 2019, that she's “dumbfounded” the U.K. government has failed to release a report on Russian influence in British politics as the country prepares for national elections on Dec 12. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, FILE) | (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, FILE)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to regulate political speech on the social media platform he founded makes him not only Trumpian, but also authoritarian, according to Hillary Clinton.

Because if there is one thing that authoritarians are known for, it’s their unwillingness to police speech.

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