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Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday in a closed-door meeting to discuss, among other issues, alleged anti-conservative bias at the social media platform. According to the Republican senator, Zuckerberg admitted that bias played a role in the decision to limit the reach of content from pro-life group Live Action and its founder, Lila Rose.Last week Hawley and several other GOP senators, including Ted Cruz, sent a letter to Zuckerberg, blasting the company's decision to limit the reach of Facebook posts from Live Action after the company's "independent fact check" concluded that the organization had posted inaccurate claims in late August. In their letter, the GOP senators said the fact check had been "conducted by abortion rights activists who no reasonable person could consider neutral or objective on the issue of abortion."...On Thursday, Zuckerberg and Hawley met in the senator's office to discuss alleged Facebook bias. The meeting was part of a three-day whirlwind tour by Zuckerberg to meet privately with senators on both sides of the aisle and with President Trump. On Wednesday the Facebook CEO met with Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Zuckerberg spent Thursday meeting with Trump and Sens. Tom Cotton and Mike Lee, in addition to Hawley. On Friday, the CEO is scheduled to meet with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, along with several high-ranking House Democrats.Hawley told reporters after the meeting that Zuckerberg admitted "they made a mistake, that there was clearly bias. Those were his words...that they were wrong to have censored Live Action."
