The Social Network Writer Aaron Sorkin Blasts Mark Zuckerberg in Scathing Open Letter - Fox News

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For any copyright, please send me a message.  For those of you who had “screenwriter dresses down tech billionaire for helping destroy democracy” on your bingo cards for crazy headlines this week—congratulations! On Thursday, The Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin chose to address one of his most complicated subjects, Mark Zuckerberg, in a scathing open letter that criticized Facebook’s policy of allowing politicians to post blatantly false advertisements. “Right now, on your website, is an ad claiming that Joe Biden gave the Ukrainian attorney general a billion dollars not to investigate his son,” Sorkin wrote in the New York Times letter, which is worth reading in full. “Every square inch of that is a lie and it’s under your logo. That’s not defending free speech, Mark, that’s assaulting truth.” Zuckerberg testified before Congress about Facebook’s political ad policy last week—and has since continued that defense. On Wednesday, in fact, Zuckerberg did so during an earnings call just an hour after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that his site would ban political ads entirely. Sorkin began his letter by noting the rigorous fact-checking and legal vetting The Social Network underwent to avoid a lawsuit from Zuckerberg. Because of that process, he wrote, “It was hard not to feel the irony while I was reading excerpts from your recent speech at Georgetown University, in which you defended—on free speech grounds—Facebook’s practice of posting demonstrably false ads from political candidates.” Sorkin’s letter repeatedly drew parallels between Facebook’s loose relationship with the truth and his own experience vetting The Social Network with his legal team and a select group from Zuckerberg’s staff at Facebook. “The law hasn’t been written yet—yet—that holds carriers of user-generated internet content responsible for the user-generated content they carry, just like movie studios, television networks and book, magazine and newspaper publishers,” Sorkin wrote at one point in the letter. “Ask Peter Thiel, who funded a defamation suit against Gawker that bankrupted the site and forced it to close down. (You should have Mr. Thiel’s number in your phone because he was an early investor in Facebook.)” The timing of that latter remark is particularly timely, given former Gawker property Deadspin reporters’ recent decision to quit en masse after their new owners issued a “stick to sports” mandate that fundamentally altered the jobs many staffers had been hired to perform. In the end, Sorkin meditated once more on Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress last week, where he told Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, “Congresswoman, in most cases, in a democracy, I believe people should be able to see for themselves what politicians th