Mark Zuckerberg speaks with Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience, posted January 10, 2025.(Screenshot via PowerfulJRE/YouTube)
My needlessly difficult attempt, while in Europe, to verify a Zuckerberg quote about Biden-era pressure.
When I’m not writing for National Review, I’m editing for National Review. In the course of fact-checking a guest contributor’s article that discussed social media and censorship in the United States, I had to verify a quote that was attributed to Mark Zuckerberg, wherein he discussed the Biden administration’s pressure tactics against Facebook during the pandemic. But I ran into a problem because I’m living in England.
On Google, I searched for the following: “Zuckerberg ‘take down things we knew were true,’” which was simply the relevant surname and the quote that had been provided in the contributor’s draft. Weirdly, Google ...