--- title: Mark Zuckerberg Hits Back at Donald Trump for Facebook Tweet description: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has fired back at President Donald Trump after he criticized the social network in a pair of tweets canonical: https://time.com/4960273/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-27T22:26:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:54:02.920Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mark Zuckerberg Hits Back at Donald Trump for Facebook Tweet og:description: "Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like" og:url: https://time.com/4960273/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa82619f841a27c7/6988dee14ee2623dfd30f1b2/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Mark Zuckerberg Delivers Keynote Address At Facebook F8 Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mark Zuckerberg Hits Back at Donald Trump for Facebook Tweet twitter:description: "Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa82619f841a27c7/6988dee14ee2623dfd30f1b2/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Liberals Say We Helped Trump': Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back at President's Tweet Criticizing Facebook > Sponsored content. 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Facebook says it will provide suspected Russian-linked election ads to Congress_ by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Sep 27, 2017 10:26 PM UTC by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Sep 27, 2017 10:26 PM UTC [Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg](http://time.com/4952391/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-russia-meddling-congress/) has fired back at [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4952974/donald-trump-facebook-russia-ads/) after he criticized the social network in a pair of tweets Wednesday morning. Expressing his thoughts in a post on the platform he built, Zuckerberg said that Trump’s claims that “Facebook was always anti-Trump” are the opposite of what liberals and the media argued following his election. “Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump,” [Zuckerberg wrote.](https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104067130714241?pnref=story) “Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don’t like. That’s what running a platform for all ideas looks like.” Earlier Wednesday, Trump said that in addition to Facebook, “The Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News, @nytimes(apologized) & @WaPo were anti-Trump.” He concluded the first tweet with, “Collusion?” before adding another that said: “But the people were Pro-Trump! Virtually no President has accomplished what we have accomplished in the first 9 months-and economy roaring.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/913034591879024640) Zuckerberg argued that despite the role Facebook may have played in helping spread misinformation, the site served as a space for “billions of interactions discussing the issues” far beyond what the media covered, while providing a platform for candidates to communicate “directly with tens of millions of followers every day.” He also talked up Facebook’s “get out the vote” effort, which he claimed helped at least two million people register to vote. “\[T\]hat’s bigger than the get out the vote efforts of the Trump and Clinton campaigns put together. That’s a big deal.” It appears that [Facebook’s recent decision to hand over materials to congressional investigators](http://time.com/4952429/facebook-release-russian-ads-congress/) looking into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election may have prompted Trump’s attack on the social network. ## Transcript We are actively working with the US government on its ongoing investigations into Russian interference. We've been investigating this for many months now, and for a while, we had found no evidence of fake accounts linked to Russia running ads. When we recently uncovered this activity, we provided that information to the special counsel. We also briefed Congress. And this morning, I directed our team to provide the ads we've found to Congress as well. Now as a general rule, we're gonna be limited in what we can discuss publically about ongoing law enforcement investigations. So we may not always be able to share All of our findings publicly. But we support Congress in deciding how to best use this information to inform the public. 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