Facebook bets on flawed defence allowing Trump to post dangerous comments

The Facebook chief executive doubles down on a flawed defence of a company policy that allows Trump to post dangerous comments

Earlier this week, on Twitter, I called the Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg the Susan Collins of the internet.

I thought it was the perfect comparison to make between the Silicon Valley boy king and the senator from Maine, who has become well known for saying she’s disturbed and concerned by President Trump’s latest example of awful behavior and for doing absolutely nothing about it.

Mr. Zuckerberg, critics say, does nothing about Mr. Trump’s rampages across Facebook while grandly stating that he personally disapproves of some of the toxic and often rule-breaking content that the president posts. (I