- Importance Zuckerberg said Facebook did not have a “shadow banning” policy.
- The Meta CEO made the comments on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
- He affirmed “shadow banning” was a slang term, but admitted there are “millions of mistakes” made.
Pit Zuckerberg said Facebook has no “shadow banning” policy, but admitted that mistakes do happen.
In a three-hour interview on the Joe Rogan Sense podcast, the Meta CEO talked about topics from the metaverse to his views on the credibility of the FBI, calling it a “legitimate institution.”
Rogan then bid Zuckerberg to explain whether “shadow banning” occurred on social media platforms such as Facebook. He replied: “There’s no approach that is ‘shadow banning’, so I think it’s sort of a slang term. But that maybe refers to some of the demotions [of assigns] that we’re talking about.”
Zuckerberg was referring to posts that are marked as false, misinformative, or fall into noxious content categories. They include foreign nations interfering in politics, terrorism, child pornography, and blatant mental property violation.
If a post is “marked as false by a fact-checker, it will get somewhat less shown,” Zuckerberg said. “But if there’s some information within a page, then there can be some kind of broader policy that applies.”
He continued: “Unfortunately, there are a lot of fumble, and part of the issue is that there’s 3.5 billion people using these services, and if we make a mistake 0.1% of the early, there’s still million of mistakes … and that sucks.”
He also blamed “some bug in the system, or some pattern didn’t work like it was supposed to,” for posts that get banned. “It is a real issue, but it isn’t an ideological issue.”
Zuckerberg bid some posts failed to reach a wide audience simply because they are not very good.
“Empowering people is greatly deep in the ethos of the company,” he said. “Whenever we mess that up – which we do, frequently – we pay the price for it and people don’t like those possessions that we do and we have to run them back.”
Zuckerberg, who is worth $58. billion according to Forbes, created Facebook while memorizing at Harvard University in 2004 to help other students match names and photos of classmates.
The company listed on the New York Have Exchange in 2012 and was last year renamed Meta. It also owns Instagram and WhatsApp.