Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg said, 'What Twitter did is they said you can't share this at all,' in explaining its reaction to the New York Post's story about the laptop in ...

[significant controversy](https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-doesnt-remember-if-he-left-laptop-repairman-i-truly-do-not-know-1581005) about The New York Post's laptop story in October 2020—a few weeks before the presidential election—and questions were raised about the authenticity of emails reportedly found on the computer. The laptop was one of three dropped off at a Delaware repair shop run by John Paul Mac Isaac in 2019 but never picked up from the store. "For the—I think—it was five or seven days when it was basically being determined whether it was false, the distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it," he went on. No evidence has emerged of wrongdoing by the president. No one was able to say it was false." [Rudy Giuliani](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/rudy-giuliani), who shared it with The New York Post. We didn't do that," Zuckerberg said. [More than 50 former senior intelligence officials said in a letter ](https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-laptop-scandal-ultimate-american-information-operation-opinion-1690293)at the time that the laptop story "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," and certain [Democrats](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/democrats) also suggested it was disinformation. [argued that Facebook's approach to the story was "pretty reasonable"](https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerbergs-explanation-hunter-biden-censorship-enrages-maga-world-1737163) and compared it to Twitter. "It turned out, after the fact, the fact-checkers looked into it. What Twitter did is they said you can't share this at all. [Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg) has criticized [Hunter Biden](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/hunter-biden), President [Joe Biden](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/joe-biden)'s son.

Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on The Joe Rogan Experience that Facebook censored information about Hunter Biden's laptop after an FBI tip about ...

Finding out the FBI colluded with social media giants to bury an explosive story that may have changed the outcome of an election sounds bad, but context is everything! "This is big, but to be clear, he says the FBI made a general request, it wasn’t specifically about the Hunter Biden story. Byron York, Fox News contributor and chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, explained, "In the final weeks of the 2020 contest, the FBI was on the lookout for anything that might damage the Biden campaign. Zuck probably recognizes that this is a good political moment to throw the FBI under the bus. Facebook acted on warning and suppressed an accurate story about Hunter Biden." We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election.

Joe Rogan teased Mark Zuckerberg about the memes laughing at his "robot"-like mannerisms during his testimony before Congress last year.

“For the five or seven days when it was basically being determined whether it was false, the distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it,” Zuckerberg added. “A lot of people were still able to share it. I think it sucks, though, in the same way that probably having to go through a criminal trial but being proven innocent in the end sucks.” “I just don’t think they looked at it hard enough. “Our protocol is different than Twitter’s. “Yeah, it sucks,” Zuckerberg said.

Last Fall, Meta and Ray-Ban introduced the world's first pair of smart glasses, allowing people to “capture photos and video, share your adventures, ...

Zuckerberg assured Rogan that there is a measure in place to make sure everyone knows when the glasses are filming, in the form of a bright blinking light. But Rogan had some concerns about the smart glasses — particularly that they contain such a small camera. But this week, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted it is possible for those glasses could be hacked to film people without consent — and pretty easily.

"[I] wake up in the morning, look at my phone to get a million messages ... It's almost like every day you wake up and you're like punched in the stomach," ...

"[I] wake up in the morning, look at my phone to get a million messages … It's almost like every day you wake up and you're like punched in the stomach," says poor Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire who as a Harvard student came up with a way for students to punch, er, rate women on his newly developed hot-or-not FaceMash-turned-Facebook platform. [suing hundreds of local Hawaiian landowners](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/28/mark-zuckerberg-110-acres-hawaii) in the process.

In a rare and lengthy interview, Mark Zuckerberg spoke with controversial comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan about Meta's plans to release a new ...

When pressed by Rogan about what it means for the distribution to be decreased, Zuckerberg added, "Basically, the ranking and Newsfeed was a little bit less, so fewer people saw it than would have otherwise." The reduction in the article's distribution was addressed publicly at the time of its publication. Zuckerberg said the article's distribution was reduced for several days while it was reviewed by the company's fact-checking partners. In addition to discussing VR, Zuckerberg was also pressed on some of the company's content moderation decisions. In the three-hour chat with "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, Zuckerberg detailed his company's plans to release a new virtual-reality headset in October. The release of the interview with Rogan comes a week after Zuckerberg was widely criticized online for the simplicity of his avatar in Horizon Worlds, which is Meta's flagship social VR app.

Mark Zuckerberg talked about Meta's research into neural interface technology on Joe Rogan's podcast, and compared it to Elon Musk's Neuralink.

"The path that we have, it's based on the fact that we have all these extra motor neurones in our body," Zuckerberg said. I mean maybe it'll be ready in a couple decades," Zuckerberg said. "You'll be able to have this experience in future where you're sitting in a meeting and your wife texts you and it pops up in the corner of your glasses and you want to respond but you don't want to like pull out your phone because that's kinda rude," he said. "It turns out you can have a device on your wrist that basically your brain can communicate with your hand, tell your hand to move in a pattern it isn't used to, and then the wristband can sort of pick up those signals and translate them into completely different things like having a virtual hand move in front of you while your physical hand is sitting there at your side," Zuckerberg said. "You want the mature version of that [technology], not the one where it's gonna get a lot better next year and you need to get your brain implant upgraded every year," he said. "The super-hard part here is going to be having a computer give you information straight into your brain, and that's not a thing that we're working on," Zuckerberg said.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told popular podcaster Joe Rogan that Facebook did limit stories on the news feed related to the New York Post story ...

Some Trump allies have called for defunding the FBI as a result. Former President Trump and some of his allies seized on the report at the time as showing evidence that Hunter was involved in questionable business dealings while his father served as vice president. Zuckerberg said he took the warning seriously. This warning came after Russia used social media platforms, including Facebook, to post content intended to be polarizing ahead of the 2016 election. [article](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/10/28/zuckerberg-facebook-throttled-ny-post-article-after-fbi-warning/3755249001/) that shows Zuckerberg made similar comments to Congress but also said he was not contacted by the FBI about the New York Post story. The Post reported shortly before the 2020 election that the FBI obtained a laptop that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden as part of a federal investigation into him.

In an interview with Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg says the story was flagged after an FBI warning.

I think in the same way that having to go though a criminal trial but being proven innocent in the end sucks... We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that'." Both social media companies found themselves blasted by US Republicans and Donald Trump supporters, and had to explain their actions before a US Senate hearing in the following days. Asking Zuckerberg if he regretted suppressing the factual story, the Facebook founder replied: "It sucks... The article remains controversial. "This whole thing that is arbitrating what is OK and what is not - I obviously have to be involved in that because, at some level, I run the company and I can't just abdicate that. [saying of the Joe Rogan interview that "none of this is new"](https://twitter.com/MetaNewsroom/status/1562967880727048192). There is no record on Mr Biden's schedule that such a meeting ever took place. But Zuckerberg acknowledged that there remained disagreement about the story, which he said was a "hyper-political issue". He said the FBI did not warn Facebook about the Biden story in particular - only that Facebook thought it "fit that pattern". [the Washington Post conducted its own analysis](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/) and concluded the laptop and some emails were likely to be authentic - but the majority of data could not be verified due to "sloppy handling of the data". Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong "sucks".

Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan both have something in common: they get easily disturbed by their spouses when they work from home.

I just go, ‘I got an idea,’” he said. Just gets shattered.” “Um, you know, our company’s actually pretty forward-leaning on remote work. But yeah, if I’m in the middle of writing and she comes in and interrupts, it’s over. “I don’t know, it’s like I have this thing where, you know, it’s — I’ll be like in zone kind of flow concentration working on something and you know, my wife will like ask me some, some like basic question and I’ll just be like, ‘Oh man,’ it’s like, ‘I just like lost my flow,'” Zuckerberg said. “They’re like with the internet connections as they are today and the ability to video conference, like why do I have to be physically in the building in order to get my work done?”

Meta Platforms CEO spoke in a nearly three-hour interview on Joe Rogan's show on a range of issues.

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The Meta CEO argues that his company's latest creation will foster more meaningful relationships, but the effects of new technology have proven difficult to ...

[provide wireless phone service](https://fortune.com/2022/08/26/t-mobile-elon-musk-space-x-satellites-wireless-phone-service/) in rural parts of the U.S. Will it work?](https://fortune.com/2022/08/25/the-block-makes-big-bet-on-blockchain-media/), by Jeff John Roberts [retracted the article](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/08/amazon-buy-electronic-arts) because it “violated our editorial standards regarding the use of unnamed and unvetted sources.” The retreat came after CNBC reported that claims of an [imminent acquisition were false](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/amazon-not-expected-to-bid-for-electronic-arts.html). The outlet, whose acronym stands for Good Luck Have Fun, whipped Wall Street into a frenzy by reporting that Amazon planned to announce a blockbuster bid to buy the video game developer Electronic Arts (the story ran on USA TODAY’s website through a publishing agreement). [build a $4 billion electric vehicle battery factory](https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-supplier-panasonic-plans-additional-4-billion-ev-battery-plant-in-u-s-11661495847?mod=tech_lead_pos3) in the U.S., an addition that would expand the Japanese conglomerate’s growing American footprint, The Wall Street Journal reported. [stole internal source codes and documents](https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/25/lastpass_security/?td=rt-3a) from LastPass, a Massachusetts-based company that stores website usernames and passwords for more than 25 million people, The Register reported Thursday. [reached an agreement on auditing regulations](https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-and-china-reach-agreement-on-chinese-company-audits-11661517519?mod=hp_lead_pos6) that should allow hundreds of Chinese companies, including Alibaba and JD.com, to remain listed on American stock exchanges, The Wall Street Journal reported. I think to have it be able to be overlaid and have kind of people be able to pop in and interact through it, I think that’s going to be powerful.” One reason automakers are embracing rather than resisting the transition is that consumers have shown an appetite for electric models. The agreement will boost the service of existing T-Mobile customers in remote locations, most of whom will pay no additional fees for the benefit. Rather than passively sniping at each other from the comfort of a keyboard, Zuckerberg foresees a return to more active interactions in his company’s nascent creation. Zuckerberg went on: “My goal for these next set of platforms, they are going to be more immersive, and hopefully they’ll be more useful—but I don’t necessarily want people to spend more time with computers.

Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the Hunter Biden laptop story on Joe Rogan's podcast.

Instead, the evidence indicates that the alerts sent by the FBI were of a general nature. It seems unlikely that the FBI would have alerted tech companies about one New York Post story. Rogan asked if Facebook was put "on guard" about the laptop story. Obviously, the far more casual nature of Rogan's podcast is unlikely to produce the same kind of forensic insight that a government committee hearing would. We rely on the FBI intelligence and fact checkers to do that," he added. [Senate](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/senate) Judiciary Committee, answering similar questions. "We took these risks seriously. Although these restrictions were later lifted, both platforms were criticized for the move. To that end, it may have been a mistake on Zuckerberg's part to talk about his dealings with the FBI in the way that he did on the podcast, given the sensitivity of the subject. [the Senate Commerce Committee](https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/tech-ceos-senate-testimony-transcript-october-28), said that the FBI had told Facebook in the lead-up to the election that it should be "on high alert and sensitivity...if a trove of documents appeared that we should view that with suspicion, that it might be part of a foreign manipulation attempt." [Meta](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/meta) CEO [Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg) is being shared as evidence that the [FBI](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/fbi) tried to suppress stories about [Hunter Biden](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/hunter-biden) in the leadup to the 2020 presidential election. The clip was immediately seized upon by social media users, some claiming it to be evidence that the FBI interfered in the publication of the story and (by extension) the presidential election.

Joe Rogan had Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his podcast. They talked about Facebook censorship policies and how his career has effected him.

“Mark Zuckerberg is a smart guy and is really ambitious. Or you could be a little more lenient and say, ‘OK, the cost of taking out any number of good guys is too high so we’re gonna tolerate having a little bit more bad guys on the system.’ These are values questions,” he said. Rogan claimed in the podcast that Facebook profits off of “encouraging dissent” and quizzed Zuckerberg about how the company handles controversial topics. “It’s almost like every day you wake up and you’re punched in the stomach,” Zuckerberg told Rogan. Ultimately, Zuckerberg said there are some trade-offs that his company has to make depending on whether it is strict or lenient on censorship. Zuckerberg assured him that the company doesn’t take censorship mistakes lightly.

The Meta CEO offered a sunny take on his company's Instagram platform, which has come under increased criticism in the past year.

Further, among those teens expressing having had suicidal thoughts, 13% of the platform’s U.K.-based users and 6% of its U.S. “I think Instagram is a super positive space,” Zuckerberg told Rogan. [Joe Rogan](https://deadline.com/tag/joe-rogan/) Experience yesterday, mostly answering questions about virtual reality, content moderation, censorship and government oversight. [told Congress](https://deadline.com/2021/10/facebooka-big-tobacco-moment-sen-richard-blumenthal-whistleblower-hearing-1234849909/) last year that of internal recommendations put forth to address those findings and others about political discourse: “Again and again, those recommendations were disregarded.” [Frances Haugen](https://deadline.com/tag/frances-haugen/) [went public](https://deadline.com/2021/10/facebooka-big-tobacco-moment-sen-richard-blumenthal-whistleblower-hearing-1234849909/) with her concerns about the impact that the company’s products are having on Americans. Much of the media coverage [has centered](https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3616579-zuckerberg-tells-rogan-that-facebook-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-after-fbi-warning-defends-agency-as-legitimate-institution/) on communications between the FBI and [Meta](https://deadline.com/tag/meta/) about the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan: "After an hour or two of working out or rolling or wrestling with friends or training with different folks, it's like, ...

After an hour or two of working out or rolling or wrestling with friends or training with different folks, it’s like, you’re ready to solve all the problems for the day, I’ve fully processed all the different news for the day that’s come in and we’re just ready to go.” And it’s like, ‘OK, well fuck, now I need to go reset myself and be productive, and not be stressed about it.’ So basically, I go, I read, I take in the information, and then I go do something physical for an hour or two and reset myself. Right, people like, reserve the good stuff to tell me in person, so it’s like, what’s going on in the world I need to pay attention to that day. So I’ve just found that is just really important for me, in terms of what I do and being able to just kind of maintain my energy level, maintain my focus. So, at the beginning of COVID, I mentioned I spend a lot of time in Kauai, our family has a ranch down there, and like, I spent a lot of time foiling and surfing. It requires full engagement the whole time, and then, this is sort of how I got into MMA too, now I don’t spend as much time in Kauai because things are ramping back up and I’m in the office a lot more, so, it’s like, alright, there’s not as much foiling in Palo Alto? If you’re foiling or surfing and you’re on a wave, you have to pay attention the whole time or else you’re going to fall and maybe get held under, and that’s not a great experience. “My parents pushed me really hard, they said, you’re going to do really well in school, and you’re going to be on three varsity sports teams. While he mentioned training wrestling and jiu-jitsu, two of the three main constituent elements of MMA, in the interview, he didn’t mention whether he’s taken up any striking discipline. “The question isn’t how did I get into it, it’s how did I not know about it til right now?,” Zuckerberg told Rogan. There’s actually this really interesting connection between people who surf and do jiu-jitsu.” I know a lot of people who do it.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed himself to be a massive MMA fan during a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.

[August 26, 2022] “The question isn’t how did I get into it, it’s how did I not know about it til right now?,” Zuckerberg said. There’s actually this really interesting connection between people who surf and do jiu-jitsu.” [Per Vice](https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axabj/mark-zuckerberg-now-obsessed-with-mma-rolling-and-wrestling-with-friends), Zuck said that not only does he love to watch but he’s become something of a grappler himself. I know a lot of people who do it. There’s that photo of him surfing and it seems like he enjoys playing leisure sports in the metaverse, but that’s usually it (other than