…..President Claims Zuckerberg told him over dinner
President Donald Trump is not only the number one citizen of the United States, on Monday he claimed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told him at dinner he is “number one” on the global social media platform.
He disclosed this in an interview with right-wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, although he did not specify when the dinner happened.
He said, “I had dinner with Mark Zuckerberg the other day and he said ‘I’d like to congratulate you… you are number one on Facebook,’” Trump said.
A spokesman for Facebook said the last such dinner took place in October.
The president noted the importance of social media to his messaging, which depends on bypassing much of the professional news media, which he accuses of bias against him.
Trump, who has nearly 70 million followers on Twitter, told Limbaugh that without the platform, “I think we’d be lost.”
“We wouldn’t be able to get the truth out,” he said.
US social media platforms have come under criticism for enabling misinformation and fake news in the build-up to the 2020 presidential election.
Both those platforms have responded by saying they will not attempt to weed out lies from politicians because their statements fall under the category of “newsworthy” content.
