Nancy Pelosi calls Facebook an accomplice for ‘misleading the American people’

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi Holds Weekly Press Conference
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into Facebook on Thursday during her weekly press briefing and accused the social media company of “schmoozing” the Trump administration out of tougher regulation.

“They have been very irresponsible,” Pelosi said about the social media giant. “I think their behavior is shameful.”

She continued: “Facebook’s business model is strictly to make money. They don’t care about the impact on children. They don’t care about the impact on truth. They don’t care about where this is all coming from, and they have said that even if they know it is not true, they will print it.”

Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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