Zuckerberg says he's ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s rhetoric. It’s just crocodile tears. see why?

Zuckerberg says he's ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s rhetoric. It’s just crocodile tears. see why?

“The Travels of Sir John Mandeville” was a supposed memoir that Christopher Columbus used as a reference guide despite the book’s fantastical tales of journeys across oceans and treks through strange and beguiling lands. The author described one destination where crocodiles would slay men and weep while devouring their flesh. I was reminded of Mandeville’s crying crocodiles while reading the fable in which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg unconvincingly assured Americans he was “deeply shaken and disgusted by Trump’s incendiary rhetoric” — which Zuckerberg’s website promotes and profits from every second of every day.

The Facebook founder failed to shed a tear while Russia-based operatives published at least 80,000 posts on his site throughout the 2016 election and beyond. The social network later admitted that the Russian propaganda it allowed to spread on its website reached as many as 126 million users. Even after the election, Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” any notion that Russian use of his site influenced the vote. A year later, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was told by the company’s then-security chief, Alex Stamos, “that Facebook had yet to contain the Russian infestation,” the New York Times reported. Sandberg yelled at him for being disloyal.

Three years later, Zuckerberg clearly remains unfazed by warnings over his site’s content, even when those raising red flags are nearly 150 scientists funded by his own family’s institute. In a letter this month, those scientists pleaded with the Facebook chief executive to stop the social network from spreading racist rhetoric, misinformation and incendiary language “that harms people or groups of people, especially in our current climate that is grappling with racial injustice.”